11 June 2021 07:57 in Landslide processes, Research project by Dave Petley
A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya: our new paper explaining the sequence of events has been published in the journal Science
Tags: Chamoli, featured, India, paper, research, South Asia
10 February 2021 08:39 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Hydroelectric power, dams and the growing list of landslide accidents in the Himalayas (and in other high mountain areas)
Tags: dam, dams, featured, Himalayas, hydroelectric, South Asia
9 January 2020 06:46 in Conference by Dave Petley
The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehradun, India is planning to host an international workshop on “Assessment and Mitigation of landslides in the Himalaya” on 13 and 14 March 2020.
Tags: conference, featured, Himalaya, India, workshop
5 November 2019 07:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The 5 km long ancient, earthquake triggered (?) Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
Tags: earthquake, featured, rock avalanche, tibet
26 February 2019 07:23 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall and snow over the Himalayas in recent days has triggered extensive landslides, with many roads being blocked.
Tags: debris flow, featured, Himalayas, landslide report, landslide video, South Asia
30 November 2016 09:35 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recently-published paper suggests that the Himalayan country of Bhutan suffered a major (approx M=8.0) earthquake in 1714, emphasing the potential for a future event that would probably lead to extensive landsliding.
Tags: Bhutan, earthquake, featured, South Asia
16 May 2016 07:05 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new videos have appeared on Youtube, one showing an earthmover destroyed by a landslide and the other a Himalayan debris flow
Tags: earthmover, excavator, featured, Himalayas, landslide video, South Asia
24 March 2016 12:30 in Development by Dave Petley
The Yale Himalaya Initiative has generated a landslide hazard map for Nepal. it is very unclear as to what this map is actually showing.
Tags: disaster risk reduction, featured, hazard, nepal, risk, South Asia
28 April 2014 08:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Friday a landslide at the Upper Madi HEP project site in Nepal trapped workers in a tunnel. Most were rescued but three lost their lives. Undortunately this is just the latest in a series of landslides associated with hydroelectric schemes in the Himalayas.
Tags: featured, Himalayas, hydroelectric power, nepal, rockfall
11 June 2013 07:21 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The newly formed Himalayan Landslide Society is organising a meeting on the mitigation of geo-disasters in Asia in October this year
Tags: Bhutan, conference, featured, Himalayas, India, nepal, pakistan
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