Attabad – one year on
4 January 2011 03:51 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Today marks the first anniversary of the A|ttabad landslide in Pakistan. This post reviews both the current situation and the ways in which the anniversary is being marked.
4 January 2011 03:51 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Today marks the first anniversary of the A|ttabad landslide in Pakistan. This post reviews both the current situation and the ways in which the anniversary is being marked.
31 December 2010 02:08 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 4th January it will be a year since the Attabad landslide blocked the Hunza Valley, generating Gojal Lake and generating real hardship amongst the local population. Of course we are now in mid-winter and the lake has frozen, adding further to the hardship of the local people. The Pamir Times has been providing coverage of the ongoing tribulations of the local people: Frozen boats on Attabad lake People walking …
18 December 2010 19:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Whilst it has dropped from the news during the winter period, the Attabad landslide crisis in Pakistan rumbles on, with dire consequences for the population on the north side of the barrier. In the next few days the high passes into China will close again, rendering the population of Gojal isolated once again. The Pamir Times featured an article a few days ago highlighting how tough conditions are once again: …
16 November 2010 15:14 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Occasionally I post a round up of stories on natural hazards, mostly on landslides, that have caught my eye in the last few days. Here is the latest set: 1. Taiwan landslide hazard management Taiwan is one of the most landslide prone places on Earth as a result of its climate and geological setting. In the last 18 months it has suffered three high profile slope accidents – the extraordinary …
17 October 2010 20:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) in Pakistan have now made four reports about Attabad available online here. These are as follows (with the correct links to each): The dam break study undertaken by NESPAK. A report by Alessandro Palmeiri, from the World Bank My report on the landslide. A report by the Geological Survey of Pakistan dating from before the landslide event about the hazards at the site. Interestingly, …
9 September 2010 04:03 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Today I presented an invited paper at the 11th Congress of the IAEG in Auckland, New Zealand on the topic of landslide hazards along the Himalayan Arc. This paper starts by looking at global and regional landslide hazard before presenting the state of play at Attabad. As usual, I have uploaded the PowerPoint file to Authorstream, such that you should be able to both view and download it below: 10_09 …
1 September 2010 07:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
NASA have released another spectacular satellite image of the Attabad dam and lake. In the article they focus on the upstream end of the lake: The article states that the water level can be seen to have dropped as the area upstream of Hussaini is no longer inundated. Now there is some evidence that the water level has dropped a little – the Pamir Times reports 12 feet (4 metres), …
17 August 2010 20:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Many thanks to David Butz, who is a Professor of Human Geography at Brock University in Canada, for sending to me a set of photographs of the situation at Attabad. David was there about eleven days ago, when the boat service was still running (it has now ceased due to a lack of fuel). David has kindly allowed me to post some pictures here – note however that he retains ownership …
27 July 2010 19:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The lake level at Attabad is rising again – the latest NDMA report suggests that the level has increased by 19 inches (41 cm) in the last 24 hours: It is now clear that the lake level is controlled primarily by local environmental conditions (which in turn are changing the inflow), rather than the spillway properties. Compare the following two graphs. The first is the lake level through July to …
26 July 2010 18:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The latest report from the NDMA suggests that the lake level at Attabad has stabilised once again, matching the stabilisation of flow in the Indus catchment: There is no news as yet as to when blasting to drain the lake will start.
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