AUTHOR=Sun Yifei , Nimbalkar Sanjay , Tan Huiming , He Shao-Heng , Liu Zhijun , Zhang Jiancheng TITLE=Editorial: Understanding geomaterial instability: physics and mechanics of landslides and seismic events JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1696671 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2025.1696671 ISSN=2296-424X