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17 May 2011
Attabad landslide – Geohazards 5 presentation
A link to the paper and powerpoint presentation for my talk on the Attabad landslide at the Geohazards 5 conference in Kelowna, Canada today.
4 January 2011
Attabad – one year on
Today marks the first anniversary of the A|ttabad landslide in Pakistan. This post reviews both the current situation and the ways in which the anniversary is being marked.
18 December 2010
The cost of reconstruction after the Attabad landslide
Whilst it has dropped from the news during the winter period, the Attabad landslide crisis in Pakistan rumbles on, with dire consequences for the population on the north side of the barrier. In the next few days the high passes into China will close again, rendering the population of Gojal isolated once again. The Pamir Times featured an article a few days ago highlighting how tough conditions are once again: …
17 October 2010
Updated: Attabad – NDMA make a full set of reports available online, plus an article in the Economist
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) in Pakistan have now made four reports about Attabad available online here. These are as follows (with the correct links to each): The dam break study undertaken by NESPAK. A report by Alessandro Palmeiri, from the World Bank My report on the landslide. A report by the Geological Survey of Pakistan dating from before the landslide event about the hazards at the site. Interestingly, …
9 September 2010
IAEG presentation and paper on Attabad
Today I presented an invited paper at the 11th Congress of the IAEG in Auckland, New Zealand on the topic of landslide hazards along the Himalayan Arc. This paper starts by looking at global and regional landslide hazard before presenting the state of play at Attabad. As usual, I have uploaded the PowerPoint file to Authorstream, such that you should be able to both view and download it below: 10_09 …
1 September 2010
The latest NASA image of Attabad
NASA have released another spectacular satellite image of the Attabad dam and lake. In the article they focus on the upstream end of the lake: The article states that the water level can be seen to have dropped as the area upstream of Hussaini is no longer inundated. Now there is some evidence that the water level has dropped a little – the Pamir Times reports 12 feet (4 metres), …
17 August 2010
New pictures of Attabad
Many thanks to David Butz, who is a Professor of Human Geography at Brock University in Canada, for sending to me a set of photographs of the situation at Attabad. David was there about eleven days ago, when the boat service was still running (it has now ceased due to a lack of fuel). David has kindly allowed me to post some pictures here – note however that he retains ownership …
8 August 2010
Meanwhile in Northern Pakistan…
Amidst the appalling tragedies playing out in southern Pakistan and in China, Northwest Pakistan continues to grapple with its own problems. Unfortunately the problems at Attabad have not gone away as yet, even though the NDMA reports on the situation have now dried up completely. However, the Pamir Times are still on the case, with a somewhat concerning report yesterday that “Three more houses were dismantled in Gulmit Gojal due …
5 August 2010
A further update on the Pakistan floods
The media have now cottoned onto the fact that the flood wave is causing destruction downstream from the northwest of Pakistan, an issue that I have been highlighting for some days. The flood waters are certainly abating now in Taunsa, although note that three days after the peak the discharge is still above the “very high” level: Meanwhile, at Guddu the water level is still rising, and is now close …
27 July 2010
Attabad lake level is rising again. It is clear that temperature is the key control at present.
The lake level at Attabad is rising again – the latest NDMA report suggests that the level has increased by 19 inches (41 cm) in the last 24 hours: It is now clear that the lake level is controlled primarily by local environmental conditions (which in turn are changing the inflow), rather than the spillway properties. Compare the following two graphs. The first is the lake level through July to …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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