There are concerns about the potential impact of an incipient landslide at Farwell Canyon on the Chilcotin River in British Columbia, Canada. On 30 July 2024, a large landslide occurred on the Chilcotin River in British Columbia, Canada, blocking the flow. The scale of the landslide was massive – on the BC website about the […]
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The 13 January 2026 landslide at Burutsi village, in the Kashebere area of Walikale Territory, Democratic Republic of Congo
A rainfall-induced landslide at Burutsi is now known to have killed 28 people. At about 1 am local time on 13 January 2026, a large landslide occurred at Burutsi village, which is located in the Kashebere area of Walikale Territory, Democratic Republic of Congo. Local news reports indicate that 28 people were killed in the […]
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Guest post: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada
Yukon Geological Survey Contributors: Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley, Panya Lipovsky, Jan Dettmer A guest post featuring images and a commentary of landslides in Yukon Territory in Canada triggered by the 6 December 2025 M=7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake. The 6 December 2025 Mw=7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake in the St. Elias Mountains of Yukon caused widespread mass […]
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A landslide inventory that extends over a century in Alaska demonstrates that climate change is having a major impact
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Of course, allow me to start by wishing all my readers a Happy 2026. I suspect that we are in for quite a landslide journey again this year. In late November, a […]
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The extraordinary scale of the November 2025 landslide disaster in Sumatra
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Yesterday, I posted about the landslide disaster that struck Malalak in Sumatra at the end of November 2025. Unfortunately, that is just a tiny component of the catastrophe that has occurred in […]
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Landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka
Satellite images are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. At the end of November 2025, a “weak” tropical cyclone, subsequently named Cyclone Ditwah, formed just offshore from Sri Lanka. Over the following day the storm tracked around the south […]
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Full Planet imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand
Over the weekend, Planet captured near-perfect images of the Mae Moh Mine landslide in Thailand. Last week, I posted a set of Planet satellite images that captured most of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. However, there was considerable cloud in the imagery, which prevented a full understanding of the […]
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Planet imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand
Planet imagery shows the massive coal waste landslide at Mae Moh Mine. The failure was about 4.8 km long and 1.4 km wide As I noted in an earlier post on this blog, at about 4 am on 4 November 2025, a very large landslide occurred in a coal waste pile at the Mae Moh […]
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Satellite imagery of the 11 November 2025 landslide at Hongqi Bridge in China
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Satellite company Blacksky has released a high resolution satellite image, captured on 12 November 2025, showing the aftermath of the 11 November 2025 landslide at Hongqi Bridge in China. The image was […]
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The 11 November 2025 landslide at Hongqi Bridge in China
A large landslide has destroyed a 662 m long highway viaduct in China. Over the last two days there has been considerable media coverage of a large, highly destructive rockslide that occurred at Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province, China. There is a very interesting set of images of the bridge during construction on the Highest […]