20 January 2015
Zanskar River landslide: more information
Posted by Dave Petley
Zanskar River landslide
The ever-reliable Tibet Earthquake twitter feed(@aam868) has tracked down some additional information about the valley-blocking landslide on the Zanskar River on northern India. Perhaps most usefully, it includes links to two images of the landslide, the first of which is in a report in the Outdoor Journal:
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Whilst the second is from the White Magic twitter feed:
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Unfortunately, these images are still not really good enough to be able to properly assess the hazard at this site.
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.