Naina in Khaptad, Nepal: the terrible impacts of low quality road construction
11 July 2022 06:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Naina in Khaptad, Nepal: the terrible impacts of low quality, poorly-engineered roads in high mountain areas
11 July 2022 06:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Naina in Khaptad, Nepal: the terrible impacts of low quality, poorly-engineered roads in high mountain areas
25 October 2021 06:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall in Nepal has triggered a large rockslide, captured on video, in Pyuthan, Nepal. The video shows a rapid, wedge-type of failure.
2 August 2021 09:38 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Melamchi – satellite images and helicopter videos start to explain the catastrophic floods in Nepal in June 2021
9 July 2021 08:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The start of the 2021 summer monsoon in Nepal has brought unusual levels of rainfall. So far at least 27 people have been killed in landslides
2 July 2021 07:18 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Satellite images collected by Planet Labs appear to confirm that a landslide dam was the cause of the 14 June 2021 Melamchi disaster in Nepal
21 June 2021 08:07 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Melamchi: a landslide dam break flood in Nepal on 14 June 2021 is reported to have killed up to 20 people and caused serious damage
10 March 2021 08:37 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new open access paper in the journal Progress in Disaster Science (Rosser et al. 2021) demonstrates that the number of landslides in W. and C. Nepal has increased since the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.
19 February 2021 08:56 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
New research (Muñoz-Torrero Manchado et al. 2021), published in Landslides, investigates trends in landslides and landslide losses in W. Nepal over three decades. It highlights the key role of human factors in determining patterns of loss
2 February 2021 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An air blast strikes trekkers at Kapuche Lake in Nepal following an avalanche, as caught in a video uploaded to Youtube.
28 July 2020 07:16 in Database by Dave Petley
In the summer of 2019 the National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC), launched a new disaster management portal (bipad.gov.np) to provide high quality spatial data. This allows landslide accidents in Nepal to be mapped in near real time.
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