2 August 2009 20:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
One of the reasons that the northern hemisphere summer is essentially the global landslide season is that landfalling tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) represent a rather efficient way of triggering slope failures. This is especially the case in the Caribbean, Taiwan, Japan, SE and S China, the Philippines and Vietnam. Typhoon rain is astonishing to experience for the first time – peak intensities of 100 mm per hour are not …
Tags: china, hurricane, India, monsoon, South Korea, tropical cyclone, typhoon
12 November 2008 22:44 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Here are my views of the Sendai landslide conference. The meeting was entitled “The First World Landslide Forum Satellite Conference”, with the theme of “Management of Landslide Hazard in the Asia-Pacific Region”. There were over 200 delegates from more than 30 countries, with many (but not all) Asia Pacific countries represented. The first memorable contribution was the short but sweet keynote by Alexander Strom. It is being argued by some, …
Tags: conference report, japan, Japan Landslide Society, sendai
22 January 2008 14:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Here is the map of fatal landslide locations in 2007. Each black dot represents a single fatal landslide. 2007 fatal landslide map.Click on the map for a large version. Copyright Prof. David Petley A number of clusters are clearly evident:1. The Himalayan Arc: this cluster of landslides extends along the whole of the southern edge of the Himalayan Arc and down into Bangladesh. Landslides here occur mostly in the period …
10 January 2008 06:16 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Here is the fatal landslide map so far for January 2008, as per 16th January. So far I have recorded 13 fatal landslide events with 91 fatalities. I will update this through the month as more events occur. The average number of fatalities in January for the last five years is 159. Four of the recorded landslides have been failures into quarries, which seems to be a particular problem into …
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