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21 April 2023

Post-seismic evolution of landslides in the Wenchuan earthquake area

A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.

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20 April 2023

The 26 November 2022 Casamicciola landslide on the island of Ischia in Italy

A new paper in the journal Landslides describes the 26 November 2022 Casamicciola landslide on the island of Ischia in Italy, which killed 12 people

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18 April 2023

Landslides as a dominant landscape process on icy satellites

Landslides as a dominant landscape process on icy satellites The journal Icarus has a very interesting new paper (Mills et al. 2023) that considers why some icy satellites of large planets, such as those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn (in particular Ganymede, Europa, and Enceladus), have smooth surfaces with very few impact craters.  There is a good plain English summary of this work on the Interesting Engineering website too.  Conventionally, the …

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2 February 2023

The 15 December 1952 Niiortuut landslide-tsunami in central West Greenland

A paper in Science of the Total Environment (Svennevig et al. 2023) describes the 15 December 1952 Niiortuut landslide in Greenland. It concludes that this was one of the earliest anthropogenic warming-induced landslides identified to date.

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1 February 2023

The 15 September 2022 Jiujiawan landslide in Qinghai province, China

A new paper in the journal Landslides (Wang et al. 2023) describes the 15 September 2022 Jiujiawan landslide in Qinghai province, China, which destroyed a section of a high speed railway line.

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26 January 2023

The 19 July 2019 Yahuokou landslide in Gansu Province, China

On 19 July 2019, the large (3.92M cubic metre) Yahuokou landslide started to develop at Dongshan Town, Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, China

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25 January 2023

The 30 August 2020 debris flow at Azijue village in Sichuan Province

In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Yan et al. (2023) discuss the 30 August 2020 debris flow at Azijue village in Sichuan, China, which killed three people and destroyed two villages. The losses were caused by an unusual secondary failure of ancient deposits in the channel bed.

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23 December 2022

Losses from debris flows in Brazil

An open access paper in the journal Landslides (Cabral et al. 2022) analyses debris flows in Brazil over the last century, finding that 45 events have killed 5,771 people and generated US$5,5 billion in economic losses.

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7 November 2022

The May 2022 landslide cluster at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India

In May 2022 heavy rainfall triggered many landslides at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India. In a new paper in the journal Landslides, Roy et al. (2022) have mapped >5000 individual slides in this event.

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2 November 2022

The role of atmospheric pressure in landslide triggering

A new paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Pelascini et al. 2022) suggests that atmospheric pressure changes may play a role in landslide triggering during typhoons

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