The world of landslides is rather busy at the moment, and we are only just coming into the main landslide season.\u00a0 I thought I’d post a a few landslide-related items that have caught my eye over the last week:<\/p>\n
1. A fatal rockfall in Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n A woman climber was killed on the Sgurr Alasdair in the Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye on Tuesday when she was struck on the head by a boulder.\u00a0 This report<\/a> suggests that the boulder was dislodged by her climbing partner.\u00a0 THer climbing partner and two other people climbing on the same slope were injured.<\/p>\n 2. A fatal rockfall in Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, on the same day an 8 year old girl was killed by a rockfall<\/a> on the Kipahulu hiking trail on Maui.<\/p>\n 3. Fire hydrant creates a landslide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks to Ernie Roumelis for the heads up on this one, and the next item too.\u00a0 In Homewood people using a fire hydrant to cool off triggered a landslide that knocked down a local electricity pole.\u00a0 There is a neat video news item about the event here<\/a>.\u00a0 Somehow the media in the US do manage to make events sound very dramatic!<\/p>\n 4. Another new landslide video<\/strong><\/p>\n Landslide videos are rolling in at an amazing rate!\u00a0 This new one is from Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, with the slide occurring in 2004.\u00a0 The USGS have a webpage explaining the event here, which also allows the recording to be downloaded, and there is also a youtube version<\/a> that should be viewable below:<\/p>\n