1 August 2012 07:34 in landslide report by Dave Petley
News of a mining related landslide in China that killed 28 yesterday, and the possibility of typhoon induced landslides in China and Taiwan over the next few days
Tags: china, featured, mine, mining, taiwan, typhoon
28 April 2011 05:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A discussion about mining-related landslides in Mindanao in the Philippines, including a discussion of the difficulties of reducing the losses associated with them.
Tags: featured, landslide report, mining, philippines
13 December 2009 13:08 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Back in August I posted a couple of times on a fatal landslide in at Lifan (sometimes written Loufan) in Sigou County in Shanxi Province in China (the posts are here and here), which appeared to be a mining related flowslide that killed 45 people. Yesterday the People’s Daily website ran a story explaining the results of the enquiry into the landslide: “Illegal production and slack safety oversight were main …
Tags: china, flowslide, investigation, mining
16 November 2009 20:36 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
See update here The Chinese language version of the Xinhua website is reporting that a landslide occurred this morning in Zhangzishan Township, Zhongyang County, Luliang in Shanxi province, burying five houses. Reports suggest that about 25 people were buried – of these two have been rescued alive whilst 12 bodies have been recovered so far. Xinhua has images of the scene: You may well have noticed the slightly odd aspect …
Tags: china, coal mine, landslide report, loess, mining
13 July 2009 20:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A few days ago on 3rd July a major landslide occurred in northern Burma (Myanmar) that appears to have affected a huge number of people. The excellent ReliefWeb site is carrying reports of the UN OCHA response to the disaster. The OCHA report states that: “On the 4th of July 2009, a landslide caused by heavy rains swept away a jade miners’ settlement along the Uru River in Hpakant Township …
Tags: Burma, flowslide, landslide report, mining, Myanmar
2 March 2009 22:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Reuters is reporting that at least 10 people have been killed and a further 30 are missing after a landslide struck the gold mining village of Huanchumay, which is situated in a remote part of Carabaya province. They quote a civil defence official, Victor Ibanez, as having said: “We have 10 dead so far and five wounded. We have no accurate data for the missing but are talking about 30 …
Tags: gold, landslide report, mining, Peru, South America
6 June 2023 06:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 4 June 2023 landslide at Yongsheng Township in Sichuan Province, China, which killed 19 people near to a mine site.
Tags: china, featured, fill, landslide report, mine, mining, road, sichuan
16 March 2023 06:59 in Database by Dave Petley
The relationship between GDP and fatal anthropogenic landslides in China is explored in a new paper in the journal Landslides (Zhang et al. 2023) . The results are fascinating!
Tags: anthropogenic landslides, china, database, East Asia, fatal landslides, featured
13 March 2023 07:37 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released last week a Landslide Atlas of India
Tags: featured, hazard, India, landslide map, risk, South Asia
3 March 2023 08:16 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
High resolution SkySat satellite images have been captured by Planet of the 23 February 2023 Alxa League coal mine landslide in China.
Tags: china, coal, East Asia, featured, mine, mining, planet, satellite imagery
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