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 video of the Gansu landslides

The Chinese State TV company has a new report (in Mandarin) that provides aerial footage of the Gansu landslide site. It is clear from the video that there are in fact two slides. The video is available via the link below (I have removed the embedded video as it played automatically):

Video available here.

The larger of the two slides is shown in this screen capture from the video:


Strangely though neither of these two slides appear to be blocking the valley, as this screen captured image shows:


Does this mean that there is another landslide downstream that is blocking the valley?
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1 comment:

Ruth said...

The BBC has some pictures up on their web site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10907437

3:39 am, August 09, 2010

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