8 December 2012
So just how bad was the debris flow at Barangay Andap during typhoon Bopha / Pablo ?
Posted by dr-dave
.This bad – the village was in the middle of the valley (image from MindaNews):
http://www.mindanews.com/tag/typhoon-pablo/
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It is hard to imagine what this would have looked like in reality. The answer is something like this:
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This is the very cost of the failure of effective disaster risk reduction, and the continuing unwillingness to address climate change.
Dave Petley is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
