Some clever researchers have devised an algorithm to collect information on landslides occurring around the world by analyzing social media posts. They use a variety of search terms to flag a post as being potentially related to landslides, then they use artificial intelligence to analyze imagery to determine if it is a landslide event and to scrape relevant information, including location data. The Landslide Blog has more on this and a link to the paper by Catherine Pennington from the BGS and a team of international collaborators.
Another El Nino storm just moved through Southern California culminating in significant rainfall on Saturday producing mudslides and debris flows in the area hit by this past September’s Station Fire. More after the break. (Photo from 