14 July 2020 06:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last few days intense monsoon rainfall in Nepal has triggered a wave of landslides that have caused extensive loss of life and damage.
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
31 July 2017 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Saldim Peak in Nepal: new analyses suggest that the 20th April 2017 glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
Tags: debris flow, featured, GLOF, Himalayas, landslide report, nepal, rockslope failure
24 July 2017 07:21 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Sunday 23rd July 2017 a landslide destroyed the bridge over the Bhotekoshi river at Larcha in Nepal, severing the Araniko Highway
Tags: featured, landslide report, nepal, South Asia
30 November 2016 09:35 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recently-published paper suggests that the Himalayan country of Bhutan suffered a major (approx M=8.0) earthquake in 1714, emphasing the potential for a future event that would probably lead to extensive landsliding.
Tags: Bhutan, earthquake, featured, South Asia
13 October 2016 07:37 in monsoon by Dave Petley
Nepal landslides 2016: analysis of my dataset for the last 36 years suggest that 2016 was the worst year on record for landslide events.
Tags: database, featured, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
29 July 2016 09:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The last week has seen the 2016 monsoon cause extensive landsliding across Nepal. To date I have recorded 73 landslide deaths across the country
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, roads, South Asia
18 July 2016 07:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As Monsoon 2016 kicks fully into gear, Nepal is being hit by multiple landslides in the upland areas, resulting in extensive damage and loss of life.
Tags: featured, landslide dam, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
14 July 2016 07:42 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Bhote Kosi valley in Nepal has suffered serious damage after the failure of a landslide dam in Tibet. This is the main route between China and Nepal.
Tags: featured, landslide dam, landslide report, nepal, South Asia, video
24 March 2016 12:30 in Development by Dave Petley
The Yale Himalaya Initiative has generated a landslide hazard map for Nepal. it is very unclear as to what this map is actually showing.
Tags: disaster risk reduction, featured, hazard, nepal, risk, South Asia
15 September 2015 05:30 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
A team from Durham University is undertaking landslide monitoring of ten slopes in Nepal that were damaged in the April 2015 earthquake. The data is being streamed online in real time.
Tags: earthquake, featured, monitoring, nepal, South Asia
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