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.
Xinhua is now reporting that 79 people have been killed in the catastrophic landslide in Chongqing. In addition, 27 miners are trapped in a mine whose adit has been buried.
Xinhua has also released an image of the source zone of the landslide (showing continued rockfall activity):
And also the landslide deposit. It is now appears that this is a massive and catastrophic rock slope failure:
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