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22 December 2015
The Shenzhen, Guangdong landslide: a massive flowslide in construction waste
It is now clear that the Guangdong landslide was a flowslide from a huge pile of construction waste in a quarry about the industrial park.
12 December 2015
Two interesting landslide videos from Congjiang, China and Manali, India
Two dramatic landslides appeared on Youtube this week, a huge rockfall from Manali in India and a landslide destroying houses in Congjiang, China
16 November 2015
The Lidong Village landslide in Zhejiang Province, China
On Friday night the Lidong Village landslide in Zhejiang Province, China killed at least 25 people.
13 August 2015
Shanyang landslide: a very complex slide
A new image has emerged of the Shanyang landslide in China, which appears to have been a complex dipslope failure triggered by mining. 65 people are missing.
12 August 2015
Shanyang County, Shaanxi: another mining-related landslide disaster in China
Early on Wednesday morning a major landslide at a vanadium mine in Shanyang County in Shaanxi Province China killed about 60 people. This is the latest in a long catalogue of mining-related landslides in China. Such disasters should be avoidable with proper slope management.
6 August 2015
Typhoon Soudelor – potential for landslides in China and Taiwan
Typhoon Soudelor is now expected to make landfall in central Taiwan on Friday and Saturday before moving on to strike China. This large storm has the potential to generate many landslides in both countries
3 August 2015
The Fukaminato River landslide in Japan
Even better footage has now emerged of the Fukaminato River landslide in Japan, which appears to be occurring at the site of an old quarry
29 July 2015
Two wonderful new landslide videos, one from Taiwan and one from Japan
In the last 24 hours two tremendous new landslide videos have appeared online, one from Japan and one from Taiwan
13 July 2015
The 2011 Umyeonsan debris flows in South Korea
In July 2011 33 debris flows occurred in Umyeonsan in South Korea, killing 16 people. In a new paper, Jeong et al. have analysed these landslides in detail, finding that they were initiated as small surperficial landslides that became highly mobile in the river channels, eroding and incorporating large amounts of sediment to create the catastrophic flows.
29 June 2015
Daning River landslide: a video that is purported to show the failure event
CCTV has uploaded a video onto Youtube that reportedly shows the Daning River landslide in China last week as failure occurred
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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