3 August 2023 07:22 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video posted to social media shows three people having a very lucky escape from a debris flow in Arunachal Pradesh, northern India.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, South Asia
21 July 2023 05:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 19 July 2023 landslide at Irshalwadi in Khalipur, in western India, which has killed at least 16 people.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, monsoon, South Asia
20 June 2023 07:02 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 30 June 2022 a landslide at Tupul, in Manipur, India, killed 61 people. A new paper (Baruah et al. 2023) provides an initial analysis, concluding that the failure was caused by poor construction and triggered by heavy rainfall.
Tags: construction, featured, India, railway, review of a paper, South Asia
13 March 2023 07:37 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released last week a Landslide Atlas of India
Tags: featured, hazard, India, landslide map, risk, South Asia
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
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, South Asia, urban landslide
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).
Tags: featured, highway, hydroelectric, India, landslide report, landslide video, road, South Asia
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
Tags: featured, Google Earth, India, landslide report, planet, Planet Labs, satellite image, South Asia
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.
Tags: Assam, featured, India, railway, research, review of a paper, South Asia, trains
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
Tags: excavation, farming, featured, India, landslide report, railway, South Asia
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.
Tags: cut slope, featured.landslide report, India, railway, South Asia
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