25 November 2008 21:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Readers will probably be aware that last week the First World Landslide Forum was held at the United Nations University in Tokyo. This was apparently “a global cooperation platform for all types of organizations from academia, United Nations, governments, private sectors, and individuals which are willing to contribute for landslide and other related earth system risk reduction.”Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend, but two of my colleagues (Nick Rosser and …
Tags: conference report, japan, World Landslide Forum
25 April 2008 21:23 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Update: Mark Drechsler has provided some images of the Kaiapit landslide, which are now integrated into the text below. Thanks to Mark for this – it is much appreciated. All images copyright of Mark Drechsler. In addition, I have placed a copy of the Drechsler et al (1989) paper on the International Landslide Centre website here. It provides a fascinating level of detail about the slide. I recommend this paper …
Tags: 1988, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, SE. Asia
7 March 2008 08:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The map below shows the distribution of fatal landslides for February 2008. The statistics are:Number of fatal landslides: 24Number of fatalities: 85 Thus February was well below the average for 2003-2007, which is 336 fatalities per annum. Note thiat this figure is skewed somewhat by the impact of the 2006 Leyte landslide. Without this event the average is 113 fatalities, suggesting that 2008 was a below avaerage year. Given the …
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