30 September 2009
Debris flow damage from Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan
Posted by Dave Petley
In addition to visiting the Shiaolin landslide in Taiwan at the weekend, we also managed to visit a couple of other places that had suffered damage during typhoon Morakot. Damage from debris flows and river floods occurred extensively throughout the upland areas of southern Taiwan, as these images show:
The government has set aside about US$5 billion for reconstruction. Unfortunately this area is threatened by another typhoon, called Parma:
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.
It is very nice to get to know your blog. We visited Taiwan last month and have compiled a report on the various failures due to typhoon Morakot. It is found here (together with one on 2004 typhoon Mindulle):http://www.civil.columbia.edu/ling/mindulle/Thanks,Hoe Ling, Columbia University
Dick Fart.