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.

Sunday, 8 August 2010

First image from the Gansu landslide

Xinhua has now published an image, apparently taken using a mobile phone, of the landslide in Chengguan town:

It is now clear that the landslide affected Zhouqu town, which is shown on the Google Earth image below:


Unfortunately, high resolution images are not available on Google Earth for this area.  These two Panoramio photos give a good idea of what the town and adjacent mountains are like:




1 comment:

BeforeGoreKneel said...

There is an aerial view in the video accompanying this article.