This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.
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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