Welcome! This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research and conferences and meetings. The blog is written by Dave Petley, the Wilson Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University in England.

Saturday, 6 June 2009

Illustration of the scale of the Chongqing rockslope failure

The landslide at Chongqing is very large - it has an estimated volume of 3.5 million cubic metres. The scale of this is well-illustrated by this image from Suomen Kuvalehti, which shows rescuers walking across the landslide debris:

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