Three new videos have been brought to my attention – one showing a slow avalanches in Italy and two rockslides, one on the coast and one in a quarry

A rockslide on Monday on the flanks of Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, Colorado killed five people and left a teenage girls with a broken leg

A new video has appeared that shows a large progressive rockslide in action. It was taken at the town of Riddes in Switzerland in Friday

A small rockslide on a Cornish slope has been captured in action in a high quality video

Some interesting news reports and images of a rockslide near to Moab in Utah, USA

A brief report on a rockslide in New York state last week, which closed Route 4 in Washington County, USA

On Tuesday a rockslide on the Gotthard railway line in Switzerland killed a worker and injured two others

An excerpt from the classic Buster Keaton movie Seven Chances in which the star demonstrates how to trigger and then escape from a rockslide

Thanks to Kyle House of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology for bringing this one to my attention. A great new video was posted yesterday showing a rockslide onto Highway 96 at Klamath River near the Siskiyou-Humboldt county line in California. The video should be embedded below: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9836643&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Rock slide on Hwy 96 in Northern California near the Humboldt/Siskiyou County line. from Paul Hailey on Vimeo. Well worth a …

I am en route to Santiago in Chile to attend the Chilean Geological Congress, the organisers of which kindly invited me to give one of the keynote lectures (on Friday). I thought therefore that I would point out that Chile has an extraordinary set of very large rock avalanches. Earlier this year, Antinao and Gosse (2009) published an interesting review of a set in the Chilean Cordillera Principal. I do …