Update on the Burma flood and riverbank collapse disaster
24 October 2011 08:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A brief review of the flash flood and riverbank collapse disaster in Myanmar, which has killed over 200 people
24 October 2011 08:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A brief review of the flash flood and riverbank collapse disaster in Myanmar, which has killed over 200 people
7 January 2010 08:55 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As we are now at the end of the “noughties” I thought that it would be interesting to compile a list of the ten most important “natural” (i.e. geophysical and hydro-meteorological) disasters of the decade. This is not intended to be a list of the ten most damaging or with the highest number of fatalities, but more to reflect events that changed the way that we think or act about …
7 January 2010 08:55 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As we are now at the end of the “noughties” I thought that it would be interesting to compile a list of the ten most important “natural” (i.e. geophysical and hydro-meteorological) disasters of the decade. This is not intended to be a list of the ten most damaging or with the highest number of fatalities, but more to reflect events that changed the way that we think or act about …
30 December 2008 15:38 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Tropical Cyclone Nargis montage from the Brisbane Times Swiss Re Sigma has just released its initial statistics on losses in catastrophes in 2008. Of course it is important to understand that reinsurance look at catastrophes in a particular way, meaning that the statistics are weighted in particular to low frequency – high magnitude events, rather than iterative processes, and to losses causing a high level of financial loss. There is …
8 November 2008 23:44 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A few updates on landslide events over the last few days:1. Highway 97: various newspapers now report that the teams trying to stop the movement of the slope are making headway. The rate of movement has now slowed to about 8 mm per day (half of the rates measured early in the crisis). The drilling and blasting crews have now moved 5,000 cubic metres per day from the crown to …
17 June 2008 08:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Just a quick post to highlight some of the more notable recent fatal landslides as we move into the Asian rainy season: 07th June 2008: Castle Peak, Hong Kong: A man and woman were killed in Hong Kong on Saturday when severe rainstorms caused a landslide that crushed the hillside hut they were living in (Reuters image below): 07th June 2008: Wangkha, Bhutan: Fourteen Indian labourers working on a hydropower …
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