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  1. Guinea rescuers search for victims after deadly landfill landslide

    Rescuers hunt for survivors after a landslide at a landfill in Guinea's capital killed 30 people. Heavy rains overnight prompted the collapse of a massive mound of waste that engulfed nearby tents and shacks. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #guinea #landslide #landfill #rains Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on Facebook: Follow Reuters on X:…

    fllics.com/en/video/guinea-res

  2. Widespread Landslide Activity in an Extreme Wet Season and Implications for Regional Sediment Management, Eastern San Francisco Bay Area, California
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    doi.org/10.1029/2026EA005227 <-- shared paper
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    H/T @amy East, Ph.D., P.G. | Researcher integrating geoscience and climate-change preparedness
    “[This paper (link above) is] a collaboration with [the H/T’s] colleagues from [the] USGS Landslide Hazards Program, who mapped over 8,900 landslides in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area during an extreme wet winter.
    How much sediment does such an extreme winter produce, from landslides or in stream discharge? How does that compare with long-term sediment production and landscape denudation rates?
    [They] f[o]nd that landslide sediment mobilization is comparable to long-term denudation rates, emphasizing the role of extreme events in long-term sediment production. However, one extreme wet year has a negligible effect toward counteracting ongoing problems of sediment deficit in San Francisco Bay: to keep pace with sea-level rise, extreme wet conditions would need to occur in 50 out of the next 75 years…”
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    "PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: Watersheds will likely produce more sediment in a warmer future with more extreme rain, primarily through landslides in steep terrain. This study examines how an extremely wet season affected sediment production and transport in the eastern San Francisco Bay area, California. By mapping and measuring 8,928 landslides, [they] found that rare, extreme rain conditions are likely responsible for the vast majority of long-term hillslope erosion rates in this region. However, due to long residence times for sediment on hillslopes and in stream channels, a maximum of 1%–2% of that newly mobilized landslide material could have potentially contributed to sediment carried by streams into the Bay that year. Even extremely wet years cannot provide enough sediment for Bay wetlands and shorelines to keep pace with rising sea levels. To meet the demand for sediment in the Bay, such extreme rain and sediment production would need to occur in most years, which is not realistic. To restore wetlands and protect shorelines, managers likely will need to supplement the coastal system with repurposed dredged material…”
    #massmovement #soil #water #hydrology #hydrography #geology #soils #geomorphometry #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphology #landslide #masswasting #climatechange #extremeweather #precipitation #rainfall #weather #climate #mapping #engineeringgeology #mapping #SanFrancisco #BayArea #USA #California #fedscience #fedservice #oublicgood #sediment #stream #discharge #extremewinter #sealevelrise #SLR #hillslope #erosion #sedimentation #tidal #wetlands #coast #coastline #shoreline #GIS #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #watershed
    #USGS | #USGSLandslideHazardsProgram

  3. Retreating Glaciers Risk Tsunamis

    On 10 August 2025, the slopes of Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord gave way, sliding into the water. The resulting tsunami was the second-largest ever recorded, with a 481-meter runup after a 100-meter initial wave that moved at more than 70 meters per second. The fjord was fortunately empty at the time, though it is regularly visited by cruise ships. After the landslide, a seiche ricocheted through the fjord for 36 hours.

    With no earthquake to trigger the tsunami, researchers had to piece together the accident through forensics. Their study concluded that the glacier’s retreat had left unstable slopes exposed, likening it to a child’s closet overstuffed with hastily gathered toys. The moment the door is no longer held closed, everything comes crashing out.

    Ultimately, the landslide-induced tsunami is, therefore, a result of climate change. That result is disconcerting, given the increasing frequency of cruise ships visiting glacial fjords. Unlike earthquake-induced tsunamis, landslide-induced ones like the Tracy Arm event don’t come with a seismic warning. With rapid climate change and frequent tourism, risk management is critical. (Image credit: C. Read/USGS; research credit: D. Shugar et al.; via Eos)

    An image showing the aftermath of the 10 August, 2025 landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord, which caused the second largest tsunami recorded. The light rock slope shows where material fell from. On the lower right, the foot of the South Sawyer Glacier is just visible. #climateChange #fluidDynamics #geophysics #landslide #physics #science #seiche #standingWave #tsunami
  4. #A83 reopens via Old Military Road #OMR following 500-tonne #Landslide caught in debris nets, following a safety review by #BEAR #Scotland. #BearNW #Landslip

  5. #A83 #RestAndBeThankful #Landslip #Landslide 8:20am 15/9/24
    From #BearNW
    A brief update to advise that the A83 at the Rest and be Thankful has been closed due to an on-going #DebrisSlide on the hillside.

    Traffic is being diverted onto the A82/A85/A819 whist the situation is on-going.

    Further updates to follow.

  6. Via the AGU's Landslide blog, the Brienz, Switzerland landslide "is part of a much larger area of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation" and could soon slide into the town of 130 residents, which has been evacuated:
    blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/20

    GeologyHub has a good explainer video on the situation in Graubünden canton in eastern Switzerland:
    youtu.be/iWkF2jb1wvs

    #Geohazards #Landslide

  7. review of landslide susceptibility studies focused on LULC.

    The development of this study had the collaboration of researchers from ESPOL/CIPAT-ESPOL, Ecuador, Universidad de Almería, Spain,
    and University of Potsdam, Germany.

    Thank you very much Andrés Velástegui Montoya, Néstor Montalván, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Oliver Korup, and Camilo Daleles Rennó.

    #LULC #LUCC #landslide #landslidesusceptibility #susceptibility #Disaster #review #bibliometrics #academicresearch #phd #doctorate

  8. #Newpaper #landslide
    It is a pleasure to share with you our new paper about #landslide #susceptibility #modelling, applied to a Part of the Western Ghats, India. In this article, we used an ensemble of the AHP and fuzzy logic models.
    Check out the full paper:

    doi.org/10.3390/land12020468

  9. Hello Mastodon, or is it Tootland? I'm so confused...I will just blunder on, confused as usual!

    I'm Heidi Stenner, a #hazards geologist and Project Manager with #GeoHazards International (#GHI) a non-profit focused on working with lower-resourced global communities who are at high risk of natural hazards and climate change impacts.

    I have been an #earthquake #geologist and #paleoseismologist with USGS. Migrated into #scicomm #disasterprep. I'm most interested in #EQ #landslide #volcano #compound #concurrent #cascading #disasters and how to #mitigate #adapt #plan to reduce their impacts.

    #introduction #SickOfHashtags #EasternWashingtonState