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2 March 2021
Ebian Yi Autonomous County: a dramatic rockslide caught on video in China
Ebian Yi Autonomous County in Sichuan: a dramatic rockslide on 27 February 2021, which killed one person, caught on video in China
26 February 2021
Badong, China: population relocation due to landslides associated with the Three Gorges Dam
Badong, China: multiple episodes of population relocation due to landslides associated with the Three Gorges Dam
13 January 2021
The 7 August 2020 landslide in Gokseong County, South Korea
On 7 August 2020 a landslide in Gokseong County, S. Korea killed 5 people. A new paper (Choi et al 2021) suggests that this was triggered by the failure of an under construction embankment during heavy rainfall
10 December 2020
Mindu in Tibet: detecting precursors of an imminent landslide
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
20 October 2020
Hanyuan County: an initial analysis of the 21 August 2020 landslide in China
Hanyuan County: an initial analysis of the 21 August 2020 rainfall triggered landslide in China, which killed nine people
5 October 2020
The Jimei landslide: inducing reactivation of an ancient failure through tunneling
In a new paper in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Wang et al. (2020) describe the impact of a tunnel on the ancient Jimie landslide in China
29 September 2020
Landslide light – an experimental study
A new open access article in the journal Earth, Plants and Space (Enomoto et al. 2020) experimentally examines the strange and controversial phenomenon of landslide light.
28 September 2020
The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China
A new paper (Xu et al. 2020) provides a greatly improved estimate of landslide fatalities from the The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China. They conclude that about 32,500 people were killed by landslides.
5 August 2020
Recent landslides triggered by rainfall in South Korea
In the last few days South Korea has been hit by very heavy rainfall, triggering landslides that have had a substantial impact
29 July 2020
The Niushou landslide in Jiangsu Province, China
A new article in the journal Landslides (Li et al. 2020) describes the Niushou landslide in Jiangsu, China, which was triggered by construction works for a hotel complex.
Dave Petley is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.