🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

⭐ PhD Opportunity! Come and work with us! ⭐ How do heatwaves influence rockfall? This project uses UAV LiDAR and infrared thermography to characterise and monitor coastal cliffs potentially including sites in Dorset, Yorkshire and Scotland. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/fro...

Almost a year since the Bridgewater Canal embankment failure. Canal embankments are the oldest of UK infrastructure, are deteriorating & at risk from climate change. Impounding water, they have high potential failure consequences. We more action to understand their condition and improve resilience.

Once again an embankment failure is labelled as a "sinkhole". Incredibly frustrating - theBBC even says in the article that "Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said it was responding to a landslip and confirmed a canal was affected."

Southampton (A) with Adam. A somewhat tricky afternoon lies in store, I feel. #pusb

Massive landslide Friday closes Highway 229 between Siletz and Kernville, damaging homes and sending debris into river: lincolnchronicle.org/massive-land... 📷ODOT

Before and after satellite images by @planet.com showing a very small part of the area affected by landslides in November 2025 in #Sumatra, #Indonesia, triggered by #Cyclone #Senyar. This pattern is replicated extensively across a vast swathe of Sumatra.

Consider submitting your #EGU26 abstract in the broad theme of #Landslides to our session of #NH3.6. We are among the continuous major landslide sessions during the meeting, and will continuously try to give more opportunities to #ECS researchers. 🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.

Channelised debris flows have caused terrible destruction at Malalak, Agam regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia. A satellite image by @planet.com shows the magnitude of the destruction. eos.org/thelandslide...

Satellite images by @planet.com are revealing the scale of the destruction in Sri Lanka caused by landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah at the end of November 2025. This cyclone is thought to have killed over 800 people, many of them in channelised debris flows. eos.org/thelandslide...

he first Sentinel1 images are in after the Alaskan M7 earthquake beneath Hubbard Glacier - no shortage of new landslides. Below are 28/11 and a 9/12 images! @watershedlab.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social

Imagery by @planet.com shows some very nasty landslides in the upland areas of #SriLanka, triggered by #Cyclone #Ditwah. At least 627 people have been killed by the landslides and floods.

Already a hotspot of rock avalanches, hundreds in the Landsat era, especially Marvine Glacier, upper Turner and around.

This is the current USGS landslide potential maps from the M=7.0 #Hubbard #Glacier #earthquake, which occurred in the last few hours. It shows high landslide potential in the area of Mount Vancouver. The first set of satellite images are going to be interesting. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Magnitude 6.8 earthquake ten minutes ago along Yukon/Alaska border on the Fairweather Fault. I am guessing this will result in some big landslides. 🧪⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

These are Planet Labs satellite images of the aftermath of the deadly #landslides in West Sumatra, Indonesia following intense rainfall. These are not isolated examples by any means. At least 700 people have been killed across the country.

The underlying cause of the dreadful disaster in #Indonesia may have been landslides triggered by intense rainfall, which transitioned into channelised debris flows and mudflows. This Planet Labs imagery shows an area south of Padang Pajang in Sumatra. There are many, many landslides.

Impressive rock avalanche on the Dent de Crolles (2062 m asl) in the Chartreuse Massif, French Prealps yesterday 😲 Release area ~1800 m asl 📷 Sylvain Thiabaud

A somewhat unexpected trip to the CBS for me today. I was supposed to fly to Hong Kong yesterday from Manchester, thwarted by a refuelling truck hitting my aircraft. A very unhelpful #Emirates eventually rebooked me tonight from Heathrow. It would be rude not to take in the match en route! #pusb

Another tailings storage facility failure has occurred, this time in Mwense District in Zambia. www.linkedin.com/posts/holy-p...

Over the weekend, @planet.com captured almost perfect satellite imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. eos.org/thelandslide...

Tune in for tonight's news @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social (and probably every CTV station across the country) for an interview about landslides. tsunamis, and pipelines. @timmctv.bsky.social ⚒️

Imagery from @planet.com has captured the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. It shows the failure was about 4.8 km long and 1.4 km wide. There appears to have been coal waste dumping on the area that failed in the weeks before the landslide. eos.org/thelandslide...

I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️ @theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social

Satellite imagery from BlackSky shows the aftermath of the 11 November 2025 landslide at Hongqi Bridge in China. eos.org/thelandslide...

It's a huge pleasure to be a part of my first #NTU open day today. As always, the students are the stars of the show. #proudtobeNTU

🗓️ Artificial Intelligence for Natural Hazards Workshop - Thursday 20th November Are you an industry or research institution interested in the applications of AI in Earth Observation and natural hazards?

On 11 November 2025, a massive landslide at Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province, China occurred during impoundment of the 312 m high Shuangjiangkou Dam. A major highway bridge was destroyed. eos.org/thelandslide...

In #Sheffield, someone has had a bad morning. Completely stuck, blocking the tram tracks. They've driven over 100 metres off road along the tracks to get to this point.

In August 2025, I recorded 104 fatal landslides, a record total number of landslides for August. 2025 is shaping up to be a terrible year for fatal landslides, with the cumulative total to that point being close to the highest year, in 2024. eos.org/thelandslide...

A new paper in the journal Geoarchaeology (Garcia et al, 2025) hypothesises that an earthquake-induced debris flow in about 900 AD may have played a role in the abandonment of the archaeological site at Pikillaqta in Peru. eos.org/thelandslide...

On 4 November 2025, a very large landslide in a coal waste slope at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand, causing extensive damage. It appears that the landslide was associated with very heavy rainfall. eos.org/thelandslide...

This enormous landslide occurred at the Mae Moh mine in Thailand at about 3 am on 4 November 2025. The trigger appears to have been heavy rainfall. Mae Moh is an enormous mine site at [18.3422, 99.7279]. The image was released by the operator, EGAT.

Satellite images from @Planet show the series of debris flows on 31 October 2025 at Chesongoch in Kenya, which killed about 50 people. eos.org/thelandslide...

A train has derailed near to Shap in Cumbria in northern England after it struck a landslide. Fortunately, it remained upright, so there is no loss of life. Some people have suffered minor injuries. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Holy moly - this glacier detachment in Tajikistan is WILD. It appears that there was a large piece of glacier ice much farther down the valley from a first detachment which then got pushed by a second soon thereafter. 🧵@planet.com @davepetley.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

Some videos have emerged from Afghanistan, reportedly showing landslides and rockfalls triggered by the M=6.3 earthquake early this morning. The road between Mazar and Kabul is reportedly blocked, which will impact the delivery of emergency assistance. eos.org/thelandslide...

Seriously? #pusb

On 31 October 2025, a landslide occurred at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, triggered by heavy rainfall at about 2 am. Reports indicate that at least 22 people were killed. This image, from Facebook, suggests that it occurred in a steep gully. eos.org/thelandslide...

On 22 May 2025, the 1.4 million cubic metre Qingyang landslide in Guizhou Province, China killed 19 people. A new paper in the journal Landslides (Wen et al. 2025) shows that adverse geological conditions caused the landslide, and heavy rainfall was the trigger. eos.org/thelandslide...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

While most eyes are on Jamaica and #HurricaneMelissa, central Vietnam just received over 1m of rain (>39”) in 24 hours

Some useful tools for monitoring the evolution and behaviour of #HurricaneMelissa eos.org/thelandslide... #Melissa #Jamaica #Cuba

Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has been published in Science Advances. We show that large post-earthquake debris flows in Wenchuan are more frequent than expected due to the large volumes of sediment stored in channels. 🏔️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #landslides

Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica, with many areas likely to see over 500 mm of rainfall. The impacts could be extremely significant. eos.org/thelandslide... Graphic from NOAA.

It was a huge pleasure to see @mattgreencomedy.com in York last night, ably supported international podcast star the Triple-G Unit. Only Matt could discuss overheating fridges and the rhetoric of immigration in the same sentence.

I'm increasingly concerned about the potential impacts of Tropical Storm Melissa (which will become Hurricane Melissa in due course). The rainfall potential maps for parts of Jamaica are deeply worrying. Large-scale floods and landslides are likely. #Melissa #tropicalstormmelissa #hurricanemelissa

A new paper (Pedersen et al. 2026) in the journal Geomorphology describes the 10,900 years old Tupaasat rock avalanche in Greenland. This landslide had a volume that exceeded a billion cubic metres and a runout distance of 15.8 kilometres. eos.org/thelandslide...

I had a fantastic day at the NTU Clifton Campus yesterday, which included visits to academic schools and the opportunity to meet undergraduate and postgraduate students. Thanks to all those who made me so very welcome.