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.

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Images of the Shanxi loess landslide

Xinhua has now published two images of yesterday's loess landslide in Shanxi, which killed 23 people, including eight young children, in Zhangjiaju Village, in Zhangzishan Township of Zhongyang County:
The reports are that this was a "loess avalanche" with a surface area of about 20,000 cubic metres. An investigation into the cause is ongoing.

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