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8 January 2013
Increased occurrence of landslides in the UK in the last year – and the relationship to rainfall
The BGS have posted an article about increased occurrence of British landslides recently. There is an interesting spatial relationshipwith Met Office rainfall data.
16 November 2012
Losses from landslides in Colombia
A brief review of the levels of loss of life from landslides in Colombia in recent years.
3 November 2012
Fatal landslides in Nepal in 2012
A review of landslide losses in Nepal in 2012 in comparison with the last 30 years. Losses were below the recent average, probably because the monsoon was weak.
26 September 2012
Download a free copy of my Geology paper “Global Patterns of Loss of Life from Landslides”
A free download is now available of my recent paper in Geology about global fatalities from landslides
13 September 2012
Ten years of collecting landslide fatality data
I have now been collecting data on landslide fatalities for ten years. In that time I have recorded almost 90,000 landslide-induced deaths.
16 August 2012
Global patterns of loss of life from landslides – my new paper in the journal Geology
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
20 June 2012
Did you see a landslide?
The USGS have created a new web based tool to allow users to help to generate a database of landslides
4 May 2012
One month from today…
The first of a series of posts exploring the occurrence of deaths from landslides over the last decade
19 January 2012
Landslides in the British Newspaper Archive
An interesting ongoing project is the creation of the British Newspaper Archive, which seeks to digitise the British Library’s back catalogue of newspapers over the next decade. This will provide searchable access to 40 million pages of historic news. The newspapers date from 1800. The team is only part way through the project, but the scanned material to date (and it should be added that they are scanning up to …
30 November 2011
My AGU E-poster – The power law relationship for landslide fatality data
AGU have introduced an initiative that allows presenters to upload eposters for the AGU Fall meeting next week. This post provides access to my poster, which looks at the numbers of people killed by landslides worldwide .
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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