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30 September 2008

Further update on situation in Sichuan

The China Daily has today published an article that describes the situation around Beichuan as a result of the current heavy rains. The article is here. The situation is sounding increasingly dangerous. For example: “As a result of heavy rains and incessant mudslides, the plan to rebuild quake-devastated Beichuan county in northern Sichuan province as an earthquake museum has been put on hold, a local official said.” “A large part …

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29 September 2008

Grave concerns in the earthquake affected area in Sichuan

Reliefweb is this morning carrying a story highlighting grave concerns about the situation in Sichuan in view of recent weather. The article is here. This article appears to have originated from the Jinde charity, who are active in the earthquake affected areas. In a nutshell they are reporting that: Sichuan Province is suffering the most severe rainstorms for a century. They report that since 21st September the city of Jiangyou …

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28 September 2008

Updates on the Cairo and Shanxi landslides

The search for victims in both the Manshiyet Nasser rockslide and Shanxi flowslide continues. The following is the latest news:Manshiyet Nasser, CairoThe number of recovered victims is now 107, with many more still believed to be trapped under the rubble. Clearly there are still extraordinary difficulties in getting beneath the large blocks. Interestingly, there is now a Quickbird image of the site, as highlighted by Almasry Alyoum. Below I have …

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24 September 2008

More trouble at Tangjiashan

Tangjiashan was the most serious of the “quake lakes” (valley-blocking landslides) generated by the Wenchuan earthquake. Back in June I followed the remarkable exercise undertaken by the Chinese authorities to mitigate the problem by draining the lake. Once the lake was drained the concern was what would happen in the wet season. Today, China.org.cn is reporting that new problems have developed: Two people were dead and 30 were missing amid …

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22 September 2008

Another Chinese flowslide? 1st August 2008

Xinhua is today reporting that: “The State Council, China’s Cabinet, has sent a team to investigate the landslide that buried dozens of people in the northern Shanxi Province, but was initially played down by local authorities. The landslide toppled a waste dump of a local iron mine and buried Sigou Village in Loufan County in the suburbs of the provincial capital Taiyuan on Aug. 1.” The landslide was reported to …

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17 September 2008

August 2008 fatal landslide map

Better late than never (just a tad busy at the moment…), here is the fatal landslide map for August 2008. First the statistics:Number of recorded fatal landslides: 61Number of recorded fatalities: 537 As such August was substantially above the average for the last five years (212 fatalities). This is interesting as regular readers will know that until the end of July most months have been substantially below the five year …

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Cairo landslide – the fall out continues

The Manshiet Nasser landslide continues to cause a huge political row in Cairo. Perhaps most importantly the population of the affected area remain deeply concerned about the nature of the response by the authorities, and their subsequent treatment. I suspect that this will rumble on for a long time. The rescue and recovery efforts have now ceased – to be honest this is probably the right decision as trying to …

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16 September 2008

Loss of life in the China and Egypt landslidesp

Just a brief update on the latest estimate of the loss of life in the landslides last week in Egypt and China: Taoshi (Shanxi): as of 16th September the official death toll is 259 people. Searches continue (see above AFP image).Manshiet Nasser (Cairo): as of 16th September the official death toll is 92 people. It appears that recovery actions have now ceased as the site is considered to be too …

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River bank erosion in Taiwan during Typhoon Sinlaku

Over the weekend Typhoon Sinlaku slowly tracked across the northern part of Taiwan (Fig. 1). Whilst attention was diverted towards the landfall of Hurricane Ike in Texas, this typhoon wreaked considerable havoc across Taiwan. The steep, weak mountains of Taiwan are amongst the most landslide prone environments on Earth. Typhoons in Taiwan deposit extraordinary amounts of rain. Typhoon Sinlaku was no exception – parts of Taichung County in central Taiwan …

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14 September 2008

Loss of life in the Manshiet Nasser (Cairo) and Taoshi township (Shaanxi) landslides

Xinhua is now reporting that the death toll in the Shaanxi landslide has now reached 254. They also report that the recovery teams are yet to search two channels in which local people believe more bodies are buried AFP is reporting that the number of fatalities in the Manshiet Nasser (Cairo) landslide is now 82 people, with at least another week of recovery work to follow. Interestingly. they also report …

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