21 September 2011 06:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide, typhoon by Dave Petley
Updates on the earthquake in the Himalayas, the overtopping of landslide dams in Japan resulting from typhoon Roke, and landslides in Rwanda and Guatemala.
Tags: featured, Guatemala, India, nepal, tibet, typhoon
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
18 June 2010 08:07 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Alongside the continuing Attabad crisis, here is a summary of the last week in landslide events (in no particular order). The list is not exhaustive by any account, but these are the stories that caught my eye: 1.The Oliver debris flow in CanadaI covered this event in a post or two earlier in the week. It is now clear that the trigger was the overtopping and eventual failure (through a …
24 June 2008 08:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought it would be interesting to provide some details of three blogs / sites that I have come across recently, and which I have found useful: Save the hills: savethehills.blogspot.com. I have posted about this site before, but as we come into the monsoon rainfall season in north India it is worth highlighting again. Save the hills is a community blog focused on drawing attention to the appalling losses …
Tags: blogs, links
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