[1]: 7.22 Geoscience Australia indicated that the landslide was due to "increased pore water pressure, unfavourably inclined weak sedimentary rocks […] and lack of adequate surface drainage".
[2][3] The landslides in Corinda and surrounding suburbs involved "thousands of tonnes" of soil, with a section of Cliveden Avenue eventually being permanently closed to vehicular traffic.
[3] Geoscience Australia records that the landslip was over a distance of 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi), with "ten houses were evacuated and 12 others threatened.
[1]: 7.22 Alderman Gordon Thompson, a local politician for the Brisbane City Council, declared at the time that, within the landslip area, "land that was being sold for homesites should never have gone on the market for that use".
[1]: 7.34 The 2011 Brisbane Flood Flag Map indicates that areas adjacent to the Corinda landslip are prone to flooding in the future,[5] and the CSIRO has warned that, with global warming, extreme weather events such as the rainfall event which triggered the 1974 Corinda landslip are likely to become more frequent.