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4 September 2019
A global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands
A global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands In a paper just published in the journal Landslides, Blahůt et al. (2019) describe the compilation of a new global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands. This database is hosted on the website of the Institute of Rock Structure & Mechanics. The authors note that “the records can be downloaded as a spreadsheet or as a kml file for interrogation …
6 August 2019
July 2019: a record-breaking landslide month for fatal landslides
In July 2019 I recorded the highest monthly number of fatal landslides since I started to collect the data in 2012. In total, I recorded 100 fatal landslides
17 July 2019
The start of the 2019 South Asia monsoon
The 2019 summer monsoon in South Asia has now fully developed. Heavy rainfall has generated multiple landslides in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh
18 June 2019
The Global Fatal Landslide Database: full dataset now online
We have now posted the full Global Fatal Landslide Database online. This new version adds a further year of data, covering 2004 to 2017 inclusive.
14 March 2019
Losses from landslides in South Korea
A new paper in Engineering Geology documents loss inducing landslides in South Korea from 1970 to 2018, revealing that 1728 people have lost their lives.
28 August 2018
Mapping global landslides
As part of our work on mapping the distribution of global landslides, Melanie Froude has set up an online GIS tool to visualise the data
24 August 2018
Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016
Melanie Froude and I have just published in NHESS a new analysis of global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016 inclusive. It shows that losses from landslides caused by humans are increasing with time
8 April 2018
Fatal landslides in 2017
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.
27 March 2018
You can help compile the NASA landslide catalogue
NASA has now introduced a tool called Landslide Reporter that allows users to upload data to the NASA landslide catalogue
19 April 2017
Losses from landslides in Colombia: the long term picture
Overnight there are reports of further deaths from landslides in Colombia. Data since 2004 suggests that landslides continue to inflict a high cost there
Dave Petley is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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