Monsoon mayhem in Central China
11 July 2013 06:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Exceptional monsoon rainfall across Central China has caused very extensive damage, including many landslides, in the areas affected by the 2008 earthquake
11 July 2013 06:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Exceptional monsoon rainfall across Central China has caused very extensive damage, including many landslides, in the areas affected by the 2008 earthquake
18 June 2013 06:19 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Early monsoon rainfall in northern India and Nepal has induced landslides and floods that have inflicted a high cost on the local population
2 October 2012 07:47 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Three landslides in Nepal yesterday claimed 20 lives
27 July 2012 22:31 in monsoon by Dave Petley
A review of the 2012 monsoon season to date for South Asia. Monsoon rainfall is very weak, leading to an unusually low number of landslides so far.
3 August 2010 08:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The true magnitude of the disaster in Pakistan is now becoming clear – this appears to be the country’s equivalent of Hurricane Katrina. It has to be hoped that lessons are learnt both within the country and by the international community in terms of disaster risk reduction there. In 2007 the World Health Organisation produced a flood potential map for Pakistan, which I reproduce below: The flood wave is travelling …
22 July 2010 08:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Although it has received scant attention in the west, China is currently undergoing a classic slow-burn weather disaster associated with exceptional rainfall. The scale is remarkable – Xinhua reports that since 1st July, 273 people have been killed and 218 people are missing, 3 million people have been displaced from their homes and 58 million people have been affected directly. Economic losses are estimated to be about US$8.6 billion. This …
8 October 2009 21:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Regular readers will know that Nepal is country in which I have a particular interest. The landslides there are dominated by the very strong monsoonal signal seen in the summer months. Usually by late September the monsoon is fading and normal life resumes. Not this year, which has seen a sudden late burst of rainfall in the west of the country. The map below shows the TRMM data for the …
15 July 2009 17:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The seasonal landslide pattern in South Asia remains very substantively below the long term mean this year – to date at least the monsoon is failing. The level of the problem is illustrated rather well by this map of the monsoon season rainfall anomaly for India, from Monsoon Online: The result is that the number of landslides in South Asia is very much below average, which is of course good …
27 August 2008 21:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I am currently putting together a keynote paper for the forthcoming International Conference on Slopes, which is being held in Malaysia in November. I have been looking at the occurrence of fatal landslides in Asia, using the Durham Landslide Database as the source of data. I have plotted the number of fatal landslides by month for 2002-2007 for three areas – South Asia (i.e. the Indian subcontinent), East Asia (which …
3 August 2023 07:22 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video posted to social media shows three people having a very lucky escape from a debris flow in Arunachal Pradesh, northern India.
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