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Landslide video: a massive landslide takes out a truck in Peru 

A new video on Youtube shows a massive landslide taking out a small truck on a mountain road in Peru. The circumstances are

A 1-Minute 'Rock Avalanche' 4,800 Years Ago In Zion National Park 

Imagine the scene 4,800 years ago when a rock avalanche nearly 2 km long buried much of the Zion Valley in a matter of 90 seconds, creating a dam on the Virgin River that flooded essentially the entire floor of the canyon that millions of visitors enjoy every year. The researchers that analyzed this event are in the Geohazards group of the University of Utah led by Dr. Jeff Moore. Dr. Moore happens to be an old classmate of mine from the geological engineering program at the University of [...]

Video: DeWind One-Pass Trenching Animation of a Collection Trench 

,[Editor] From their video description: [/Editor]DeWind One-Pass Trenchers can install complete DEEP Groundwater Collection Trench Systems in a Single Pass Under the Groundwater Table! No Open Excavations-No Dewatering - No Pumping- No Treating discharge water- No Sheeting or Shoring- minimal spoils....Fast and Safe installs up to 50 below grade. [Source: YouTube. Image:

New landslide video: the mobility of the Aranayake landslide 

A new video has appeared on Youtube showing the mobility of a small secondary failure at the site of the Aranayake landslide in Sri

New videos for Monday morning: an earth mover get caught in a landslide and a debris flow from the Himalayas 

Two new videos have appeared on Youtube, one showing an earthmover destroyed by a landslide and the other a Himalayan debris

New landslide videos from the last few days, including an impressive rockfall at Mont Granier 

Two new landslide videos have appeared on Youtube, including an impressive rockfall last weekend on Mont Granier in the French Prealps and a smaller collapse at Swimmer's Delight in

The location of the Chitan hydropower landslide 

The location of the Chitan hydropower landslide Xinhua now reports that the number of people killed or missing in the Chitan Hydropower landslide on Sunday total 41 people, and that so far 31 bodies have been recovered.  A further 13 people were injured, some critically.  CCTV has put on Youtube a section of drone footage of the landslide site, showing the ongoing rescue operations: . This view suggests that the

Do not miss this: video of a catastrophic landslide in loess in Kyrgyzstan 

An astonishing video has appeared on Youtube showing a video in, I assume, loess in Kyrgyzstan a few days ago. The landslide killed a teenage

Have You Seen These Ultra HD Videos of Earth from the ISS? 

NASA has released some incredible video in ultra high-definition of Earth. The video was taken from the ISS and it’s as close as you can get to seeing what the crew on the ISS sees. Go to YouTube directly, and look at the video full screen at highest resolution. Here is

Pakistan: a highly destructive landslide caught on video 

A new video has appeared on Youtube of a highly destructive landslide in Pakistan. The origins of the landslide are unclear, but the initial failure appears to trigger a larger slip on the lower slopes that dramatically destroy a number of

GeoCinema at the 2016 General Assembly 

GeoCinema is the home of geoscience films at the EGU General Assembly. This year features 50 fantastic films from across the geosciences, so you can step into some soil science, dive into deep ocean investigations, catch a glimpse of climate change research and more! GeoCinema runs almost continuously throughout the conference, with short films, documentaries and feature length productions playing throughout the week in the GeoCinema Room (room 0.90 on the Yellow Level) from 10:30 until 19:00 [...]

A terrifying video of two coaches trapped by “shooting rocks” in Pakistan 

A terrifying video has appeared on Youtube showing two buses trapped by "shooting rocks" on the Karakorum Highway in

Communicate your Science Video Competition finalists 2016: time to get voting! 

For the third year in a row we’re running the EGU Communicate Your Science Video Competition – the aim being for early career scientists to communicate their research in a short, sweet and public-friendly video. Our judges have now selected 3 fantastic finalists from the excellent entries we received this year and it’s time to find the best geoscience communication clip! The shortlisted videos will be open to a public vote from now until midnight on 21 April; – just ‘like’ the video [...]

Video: Landslide Near Elk City, ID 

This is some very interesting first-person video of a landslide near Elk City, Idaho, complete with expletives. :) I can't say I blame the videographer, it's not every day you see a slope like that come down. Must have been quite an experience to be there! [Source: YouTube. Image:

Make your next computer a Chromebox 

I just got one for the house.  All it is ever used for is Facebook, YouTube, and email.  A Chromebox (cb) can do that and so much more.  I like the small size and no noisy fan.  The kids usually turn off their computers in their bedrooms because of the noisy fan at night. This is easy to set up, and no worries about viruses and other gunk.  I'm happy because I'm the 'goto' guy when things

Fossil Meteorite Video 

An interesting video produced by The Field Museum of Chicago, Illinois, USA is on YouTube about Fossil Meteorites. These objects fell to Earth and landed in an ancient sea. Over time like organic fossils there composition changed as the original material was replaced with minerals. The meteorite shown in this video was L chondrite and the chromite composition was measured to identify it.

Trippin' Pipe 

I was going through old files here during some down time and I found a GREAT video from a former education officer.  You can find it on youtube

Pucker-worthy Debris Flow Video 

I saw this video a few weeks back on The Landslide Blog, and it's also been posted on GeoEngineer.org. It's well worth the watch. It's one of the scariest debris flow videos I've seen. Some hikers are crossing a channel cut naturally through old debris flow deposits, like a hiker bowling alley. Fortunately the guides hear it coming and everyone manages to get out of the channel before the latest debris flow roars through! [Source: YouTube via Dave's Landslide Blog. Image:

The greatest ever debris flow video? Aconcagua in Argentina 

An amazing video has appeared on youtube showing a debris flow on the flanks of Aconcagua in Argentina. It came very close to killing a group of

Origins of Life Video 

I watched a promo video from the U.K.'s Natural History Museum in London for David Attenborough's First Life. They have some great Cambrian creature animations in this. After searching around YouTube a bit I found that they belonged to a 2010 Atlantic Productions documentary called First Life. Found on YouTube