16 January 2017 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
To mark National Earthquake Day, the Nepal Times has a series of articles entitled Future Shock that examines the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, hazard, nepal, risk, South Asia, vulnerability
9 December 2016 08:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new paper has revealed interesting spatial characteristics of landslides triggered by the 2015 M=7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
24 April 2016 07:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Today is the 1st anniversary of the Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. A USGS report published last year describes the most significant landslide, the Gorkha rock and ice avalanche, which killed over 200 people.
Tags: avalanche, earthquake, featured, gorkha, nepal, South Asia
6 May 2015 10:30 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The EWF team, working with the British Geological Survey, have provided an update on landslide hazard after the Gorkha earthquake, including a landslide map
Tags: earthquake, featured, gorkha, nepal, South Asia, valley blocking landslide
25 April 2015 06:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The M=7.5 shallow earthquake in Nepal this morning is likely to have caused serious damage, especially in the epicentral region of Lamjung
Tags: earthquake, featured, nepal, South Asia
19 September 2011 07:25 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
An update on reported losses from the earthquake in the Himalayas yesterday. Landslides are clearly a major problem, and further heavy rainfall is forecast.
Tags: Bhutan, china, earthquake, featured, India, nepal, tibet
18 September 2011 18:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
At 12:40 UT (18:40 local time) today an earthquake struck Sikkim in northern India, producing significant shaking in Nepal, India and, probably Bhutan. According to the USGS information page for the event, this is a magnitude 6.9 event at a depth of about 20 km, though note that this will probably change slightly as better data become available. The epicentre is located as shown on the map below: Although this …
Tags: Bhutan, featured, India, nepal
14 July 2023 05:54 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Nature (Lavé et al. 2023) describes the 23 cubic km Sabche rockslide in Annapurna, Nepal, which occurred about 850 years ago.
Tags: featured, Himalayas, megalandslide, nepal, research, review of a paper, South Asia
2 February 2021 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An air blast strikes trekkers at Kapuche Lake in Nepal following an avalanche, as caught in a video uploaded to Youtube.
Tags: air blast, avalanche, featured, 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
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