Pantai Remis landslide

The 1993 Pantai Remis landslide occurred on 21 October 1993, near Pantai Remis in Perak, Malaysia. The landslide took place in an abandoned open cast tin mine close to the coast. This area of Malaysia is well known for its tin mining industry.cite web|url=http://www.american.edu/TED/tin.htm|title= TED Case Studies: Tin Mining In Malaysia - Present And Future |publisher=Trade Environmant Database|accessdate=2008-09-14]

Video footage taken of the event shows the speedy collapse of the working face closest to the sea; eventually the sea breaches the collapsing land barrier and rushes into the mine. A new cove measuring approximately 0.5 by 0.5km was formed on the coastline as a result of this man-made disaster. It can be viewed on Google Earth at 100°36'21.32"E, 4°25'18.85"N.

The video

The video was uploaded to You Tube on 17 May 2007. The accompanying description in Cantonese reads:

That year, I received a call by the owner of a tin mine (the element tin, not tin as in cans...). He said that his mine, which had been running for a few decades, was about to collapse. I rushed to the scene with my video camera and waited for a few hours. Finally, I took this valuable footage. Although the footage lasted only a few minutes, it is horribly exciting enough. I hope that this video can let you all appreciate the consequence of ruining our environment.

Professor Dave Petley, the Wilson Chair in Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham, England and founder and director of the International Landslide Centre, said in his blog account of the event: "It remains the very best landslide video that I have ever seen, despite the fairly poor resolution."cite web|url=http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/sichuan-what-does-landslide-look-like.html|title= Sichuan - what does a landslide look like in reality? |publisher=Dave Petley|accessdate=2008-09-14]

References

External links

* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA The You Tube video of the event]
* [http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/sichuan-what-does-landslide-look-like.html Blog on the event by Professor Dave Petley]