Landslides in Nepal: the need for a national agency?
17 April 2018 06:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A group of national and international experts are calling for the creation of a new national agency to manage landslides in Nepal.
17 April 2018 06:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A group of national and international experts are calling for the creation of a new national agency to manage landslides in Nepal.
8 April 2018 23:13 in Database, landslide costs by Dave Petley
A first analysis of fatal landslides, and the resultant deaths, in 2017. In terms of the number of events, 2017 was the third worst year since I started collecting data in late 2002. In total, 453 different landslides killed 4,164 people.
22 January 2018 07:31 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Many of the Rohingya people, forced to leave Myanmar / Burma by ethnic cleansing, are now living in landslide prone locations in Bangladesh. Dramatic satellite images from Planet Labs illustrate the magnitude of the threat.
2 October 2017 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video on Youtube, which shows a rockslide on the Karnali Highway in Nepal, provides a brutal illustration of the dangers of filming landslides
4 September 2017 06:06 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On Saturday afternoon a landslide that destroyed several vehicles at Dhalli in Shimla, N. India was caught on video from multiple angles
13 August 2017 23:15 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 13th August 2017 at least 46 people were killed when two buses were struck by a landslide at Kotrupi in Himachal Pradesh in Northern India
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
10 July 2017 09:16 in landslide video by Dave Petley
As the monsoon intensifies across Asia, a series of landslide videos have been published from Arunachal Pradesh in India and from China
23 June 2017 06:08 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The Kaikoura earthquake landslides: an excellent video about the enormous mitigation works on State Highway 1 in New Zealand
16 April 2017 23:34 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Meethotamulla garbage dump in Colombo, Sri Lanka is now known to have killed at least 26 people. Images suggest this was a disaster waiting to happen.
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