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.
Tags: data, database, mapping landslides, nepal, South Asia
24 July 2020 07:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The first few weeks of the SW monsoon in Nepal has seen large numbers of landslides. By 20 July the number of fatal landslides had already exceeded the average annual total for the last 15 years.
Tags: database, fatal landslide, featured, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
14 July 2020 06:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last few days intense monsoon rainfall in Nepal has triggered a wave of landslides that have caused extensive loss of life and damage.
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
9 July 2019 06:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Budhiganga River landslide: just one of many landslide challenges in Nepal as the monsoon rapidly develops across South Asia
Tags: featured, monsoon, nepal, Planet Labs, South Asia
1 April 2019 07:00 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
A commentary just published in NHESS (Sudmeier-Rieux et al. 2019) argues for the need for better governance of mountain road building in Nepal
Tags: development, featured, nepal, road, road construction, South Asia
19 November 2018 07:53 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new Youtube videos show dramatic roadside failure events. One shows a landslide on a quarry haul road whilst the other shows a joint controlled rockfall
Tags: featured, India, landslide video, nepal, quarry India, road, South Asia
17 April 2018 06:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A group of national and international experts are calling for the creation of a new national agency to manage landslides in Nepal.
Tags: featured, landslide management, landslide report, nepal, South Asia
8 November 2017 07:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper (Stolle et al. 2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that 3 medieval earthquakes may have induced catastrophic landsliding in Nepal
Tags: debris flow, earthquake, featured, nepal, South Asia
2 October 2017 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video on Youtube, which shows a rockslide on the Karnali Highway in Nepal, provides a brutal illustration of the dangers of filming landslides
Tags: featured, landslide video, nepal, rockslide, South Asia
31 July 2017 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Saldim Peak in Nepal: new analyses suggest that the 20th April 2017 glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
Tags: debris flow, featured, GLOF, Himalayas, landslide report, nepal, rockslope failure
Recent Comments