Serious landslides in Uganda
30 August 2011 10:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports are coming in of two landslides in Uganda yesterday that together have killed over 25, and possibly over 50, people.
30 August 2011 10:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports are coming in of two landslides in Uganda yesterday that together have killed over 25, and possibly over 50, people.
14 July 2010 21:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Long term readers of this blog will know that one of its original purposes was to disseminate the work that I do collating data on fatal landslides worldwide. As the Attabad situation reduces in its intensity I plan to return to some of those key themes. So here is a half term report on the occurrence of fatal landslides in 2010. Numbers of landslides:As of the end of 30th June …
8 November 2008 23:44 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A few updates on landslide events over the last few days:1. Highway 97: various newspapers now report that the teams trying to stop the movement of the slope are making headway. The rate of movement has now slowed to about 8 mm per day (half of the rates measured early in the crisis). The drilling and blasting crews have now moved 5,000 cubic metres per day from the crown to …
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