2 October 2009 16:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I am struggling to keep up with the natural disasters at the moment. The main point of this post is to highlight the continued threat of Typhoon Parma to the northern Philippines. The current track forecast has it making landfall in the next day or so in the northern part of Luzon. The forecasts are still that it will stall as it makes its way across that area – this …
Tags: Cambodia, earthquake, India, indonesia, Italy, landslide report, tropical cyclone, typhoon, Vietnam
4 September 2009 12:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As I reported a couple of days ago, the Mw=7.0 earthquake in Indonesia on Wednesday triggered a substantive landslide in the village of Cikangkareng in West Java. This landslide buried ten houses, a mosque and an amusement (video game) arcade with the loss of about 57 lives. AP have today released images of the landslide that are quite interesting. In particular this one: Why is this interesting? Well, first lets …
Tags: earthquake, indonesia, landslide report, rockfall
2 September 2009 16:14 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A large (Mw = 7.0) earthquake struck offshore Java in Indonesia today at 07:55 UTC (2:55 am local time). USGS has a location map (below) and earthquake parameters, a shake map, etc here. AP is reporting that a large landslide was triggered in Rawa Hideung village, Cianjur district in Java: “Antara reported that 12 families, or about 30 people, were trapped in houses buried by the landslide in Rawa Hideung …
Tags: earthquake, indonesia, landslide report
18 January 2009 20:22 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Jakarta Globe is today reporting a quite large landslide at Buwun Mas village in West Nusa Tenggara Province. This slide is reported to have killed at least four people, with a further 11 potential victims believed to be buried in the debris. The report is quite interesting as it says that: “The area, [Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Ministry of Health’s Crisis Center] said, is used for illegal …
Tags: deforestation, indonesia, landslide report, mining
28 December 2007 14:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I have been trying to work out from the press reports the death toll associated with the landslides in Indonesia on 26th and 27th December. These appear to have been shallow but large failures on deforested slopes, triggered by heavy rain. The best that I have been able to come up with to date is as follows: 26th December: Karanganyar District: 61 fatalties. This appears to include a single landslide …
29 November 2022 07:36 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Several landslides were triggered by the 21 November 2022 West Java earthquake in Indonesia. Reports indicate multiple fatalities.
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, SE. Asia
29 March 2022 06:26 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
An earthquake on 25 February 2022 triggered multiple landslides on the flanks of Mount Talakmau in west Sumatra, Indonesia.
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, lahar, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, SE. Asia, volcano
15 July 2020 07:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large rock slope failure has developed at Cromwell in New Zealand. The NZTA are using helicopter sluicing to try to manage the hazard.
Tags: featured, landslide management, landslide report, New Zealand, road, wedge
14 May 2020 06:34 in Database by Dave Petley
I have made the 2019 fatal landslide dataset available as a Google Sheet for the community to use, and welcome any corrections or additions
Tags: database, dataset, fatal landslides, featured, map, mapping
17 March 2020 07:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In 1919 a devastating eruption of Mount Kelud in Indonesia triggered massive lahars that killed 5,160 people on the flanks of the volcano
Tags: featured, indonesia, lahar, SE. Asia, volcano
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