13 February 2011 00:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A short post proving a video of the aftermath of the turkish open cast mine accident, and a link to a CNN video on the work Of Anne Hallum
Tags: forest, Guatemala, landslide report, mine, Nicaragua, Turkey
31 August 2010 09:22 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The next few posts will be an attempt to catch up on the things that I missed whilst on vacation in Switzerland last week. Thanks to the many people who have tipped me off about landslide events. I will cover Pakistan in another post.1. A large flow in AustriaThanks to Martin Springer for highlighting this one. On Saturday 21st August a severe storm triggered a 100,000 cubic metre flow in …
Tags: Austria, flow, landslide report, North Korea, pakistan, South Korea, tropical cyclone, typhoon, USA
4 May 2010 11:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
For this year’s EGU General Assembly I intend to only blog on talks that really catch my eye. This morning there was a fabulous session on Landslide Forecasting with series of great talks. Of these, Samuele Segoni and colleagues presented a very interesting paper on a hugely ambitious project to develop a regional landslide warning system for Tuscany based on rainfall thresholds. The project appears to be extraordinarily successful – …
Tags: conference report, EGU, forecast, warning system
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 …
Tags: disaster, earthquake, landslide, review, tropical cyclone, typhoon
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 …
Tags: disaster, earthquake, landslide, review, tropical cyclone, typhoon
3 May 2009 22:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Image from: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20677530 Just a short post to point out some interesting statistics on rockslides in Turkey. The source of the data is the General Directorate of Disaster Affairs in Turkey, reported here. The statistics are:Total area at risk from rockslides in Turkey: 194,000 square kilometresNumber of people at risk: 8 million (11% of the population)Number of fatalities from rockslides between 1980 and 2000: 177. Given the high seismic hazard …
Tags: rockslide, statistics, Turkey
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