The Landslide Blog – the first ten years
15 December 2017 12:25 in blogging by Dave Petley
Tomorrow will mark the tenth anniversary of the Landslide Blog. It is an opportunity to reflect upon the successes and failures so far.
15 December 2017 12:25 in blogging by Dave Petley
Tomorrow will mark the tenth anniversary of the Landslide Blog. It is an opportunity to reflect upon the successes and failures so far.
21 January 2017 10:13 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 16th December 2016, a major landslide destroyed the penstock and associated infrastructure at the Xekaman 3 hydroelectric power plant site in Laos
30 December 2016 18:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Jharkhand in India and Hpakant in Burma (Myanmar): two mine waste landslides in the last two days that have caused multiple fatalities
20 June 2014 07:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Monsoon 2014 in South Asia is late this year, but the 16 landslide deaths overnight in Nepal suggest that it is now having an impact.
16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
8 November 2011 07:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A review of landslide impacts since 2002 in Colombia.
30 September 2011 12:47 in typhoon by Dave Petley
A brief report on typhoon Nalgae, which is likely to make landfall in the Philippines in the next 24 hours.
9 June 2011 05:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As I noted in my previous post, we are now just entering the global landslide season. In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last …
24 January 2011 07:53 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
There is a great deal of discussion in the landslide community as to whether trends in landslide occurrence are upwards. Data from the Interb=national Landslide Centre database for the last seven years are used to show that the number of landslides that kill people in Asia appears to be increasing, whilst the number of people killled shows a far less clear trend, but may be dominated by the effects of El Nino events.
11 November 2009 21:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In most years in which I have been collecting landslide fatality statistics (since 2002) November has been a month with quite low landslide occurrence. Not this year though – in fact the last few days have been more like the summer monsoon season, with fatal landslides occurring in a wide range of places. Examples include: El Salvador on 6th November, in which the volcanic lahars triggered by Hurricane Ida appear …
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