28 December 2007
December 2007 fatal landslide map
Posted by Dave Petley
UPDATED! This is the monthly map for landslide fatalities for December 2007, replacing the earlier provisional map.
Fatal landslide location map for December 2007 (provisional version 1). Click for a larger map.
The statistics for the fatal landslides that I recorded are:
Number of fatal landslides: 15 (note at present I cannot work out how many individual landslides there were in the 26th-27th December Java events)
Number of fatalties: 196
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.