9 July 2020 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Shimen County, Hunan Province, China: yesterday, a 3 million cubic metre rainfall triggered landslide, which destroyed several houses, was caught on video
Tags: china, featured, Hunan, landslide report
6 July 2020 07:20 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large landslide on a steep, forested slope was triggered by exceptional rainfall this weekend at Ashikita in the Kumamoto area of Japan
Tags: featured, japan, Kumamoto, Kyushu, landslide report
6 August 2019 06:21 in Database by Dave Petley
In July 2019 I recorded the highest monthly number of fatal landslides since I started to collect the data in 2012. In total, I recorded 100 fatal landslides
Tags: database, fatal landsldies, fatalities, featured, global heating
17 July 2019 06:23 in Database by Dave Petley
The 2019 summer monsoon in South Asia has now fully developed. Heavy rainfall has generated multiple landslides in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh
Tags: database, featured, monsoon, South Asia
12 February 2019 07:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
There are reports of landslides caused by heavy rainfall last week at Cuajone mine, located at 3,400 metres in the Andes of Peru. A worker has been killed.
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Peru, South America, tailings
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
13 July 2018 05:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The 1 million displaced Rohingya people, now living in refugee camps in Bangladesh having fled from Myanmar, are facing extreme levels of landslide hazard as the monsoon develops. We need your help to try design an effective early warning system.
Tags: Bangladesh, early warning, featured, help, refugee, rohingya, South Asia
12 June 2018 06:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Rohinghya refugees: landslides start to take lives as the monsoon arrives For the last few months there has been increasing concern about the plight of many of the Rohingya refugees who have been forced out of Burma – Myanmar – by the military, and are now living in makeshift camps in Bangladesh. The numbers are vast – some estimates suggest over 700,000 people. There is particular concern about the …
Tags: Bangladesh, Burma, featured, Myanmar, refugee, rohingya, S. Asia
22 January 2018 07:31 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Many of the Rohingya people, forced to leave Myanmar / Burma by ethnic cleansing, are now living in landslide prone locations in Bangladesh. Dramatic satellite images from Planet Labs illustrate the magnitude of the threat.
Tags: Bangladesh, Burma, featured, monsoon, Myanmar, planet lab, refugee, South Asia
23 October 2017 06:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday a major landslide on a large cut slope at a construction site in Tanjung Bungah in Penang, Malaysia killed eleven workers
Tags: construction, cutslope, featured, landslide report, malaysia, SE. Asia
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