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9 July 2014
Shawa village: a significant mudslide in China
A mudslide in Shawa Village in Fugong County, Yunnan Province in China may mark the beginning of the unusually late landslide season across Asia
1 July 2014
Zhaotong City: a new landslide video
A good video has been released of a landslide in Zhaotong City, China on Saturday
5 June 2014
Moving mountains in China: a new paper in Nature
Moving mountains: a new paper in Nature reveals an enormous programme of mountain top removal in China to create land for development. The landslide potential from such a project is high
10 March 2014
UBC distinguished lecture powerpoint file: Earthquake-induced landslides – lessons from Taiwan, Pakistan, China and New Zealand
The powerpoint file from my UBC Geological Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Earthquake Induced Landslides
14 February 2014
Xinjiang earthquake: a good new image of the landslides
Another image has emerged of landslides triggered by the Xinjiang earthquake yesterday
13 February 2014
Xinjiang: Landslides from the M=6.9 earthquake in NW China yesterday
On 12 February 2014 a Mw=6.9 earthquake struck Xinjiang in China. Images are emerging of some of the landslides that it triggered.
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29 July 2013
The China landslide car video – how did the occupants survive?
How did the passengers in the car filmed being hit by a soil fall in Shaanxi, China survive the landslide?
26 July 2013
Spectacular landslides from the Gansu earthquake this week
Images have emerged of spectacular flowslides triggered by the Gansu earthquake this week, whilst 13 people have been killed bost post-seismic landslides today
24 July 2013
Two dramatic new landslide videos from China
Two new videos on Youtube show landslides in China. One features the aftermath of a loess landslide, the other a rockslide above a community
22 July 2013
Landslides and liquefaction from the Cook Straits earthquake yesterday
The Cook Strait earthquake sequence of the last three days has generated a small number of landslides and liquefaction failures

Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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