Joshimath: an Indian town with a serious landslide problem
4 January 2023 17:28 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Chamoli district in northern India lies Joshimath, a mountain town with a serious and rapidly developing landslide problem
4 January 2023 17:28 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Chamoli district in northern India lies Joshimath, a mountain town with a serious and rapidly developing landslide problem
21 December 2022 07:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 19 December 2022 the Urni landslide in Kinnaur, India was captured on a dramatic video. The failure blocked a National Highway (NH-5).
13 December 2022 07:53 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The Gaguney landslide in India: images from Google Earth and Planet Labs allow analysis of the evolution over time of a damaging failure
7 November 2022 07:31 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In May 2022 heavy rainfall triggered many landslides at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India. In a new paper in the journal Landslides, Roy et al. (2022) have mapped >5000 individual slides in this event.
8 July 2022 06:45 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Tupul landslide occurred at the site of a major construction project involving slope excavation, but officials are blaming poor farming methods for the failure
4 July 2022 06:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 30 June 2022 a very large landslide occurred at Tupul in Noney district of Manipur in Northern India, killing at least 42 people.
24 January 2022 08:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thelkoloi: another tailings failure, this time in India On Thursday 20 January 2022 another tailings failure occurred, this time at Thelkoloi in Odisha, India. The failure has been reported in some of the media in India, but not more widely. For example, the Hindustan Times reports that the failure was in a slurry pond from the JSW Bhushan Power and Steel Limited works in Sambalpur district. It suggests that a …
20 January 2022 08:03 in landslide video by Dave Petley
CCTV footage has been posted online of an unusual and interesting large rock slab topple from Jammu and Kashmir in India
19 November 2021 09:07 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Images from Planet indicate that the 29 October 2021 Kameng Valley event was a probably a rock and ice avalanche that originated on a steep slope high in the mountains.
18 November 2021 09:21 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
An Indian government official claimed yesterday that the Char Dham highway project in India is not responsible for causing landslides. This is demonstrably incorrect.
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