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8 November 2011
Rising trends in landslides in Colombia
A review of landslide impacts since 2002 in Colombia.
28 July 2011
First images of the Korean landslides plus data on recent landslide losses in Korea
Update: don’t miss the video of the Seoul landslides here Yonhap News has published a photograph of what I think is the site of the landslide in Chuncheon: Meanwhile, the current rain radar image for Korea suggests that heavy rainfall is continuing to fall over the affected areas: Fatality-inducing landslides do occur fairly often in South Korea. The graph below shows the data from the Durham fatal landslide database for …
21 June 2011
Fatality-inducing landslides in 2011 – the scorecard at the summer solstice
Dave provides a brief review of fatality-inducing landslides in 2011 to date, comparing the data with previous years.
10 March 2011
Landslides in Nepal
A review of landslides in Nepal, highlighting trends in time, and outlining why this issue needs to be addressed. The UK government’s abnnouncement today that their aid funding for Nepal for the next five years will highlight disaster risk reduction, including reducing landslide losses, is very welcome.
5 February 2011
Global deaths from landslides in 2010 (updated to include a comparison with previous years)
I have finally managed to process the 2010 data in my database on lives lost from landslides around the world. This post presents a summary of the findings.
24 January 2011
Trends in landslide impacts in Asia
There is a great deal of discussion in the landslide community as to whether trends in landslide occurrence are upwards. Data from the Interb=national Landslide Centre database for the last seven years are used to show that the number of landslides that kill people in Asia appears to be increasing, whilst the number of people killled shows a far less clear trend, but may be dominated by the effects of El Nino events.
7 November 2010
Landslide fatality statistics for October 2010 (updated with map)
This post provides a summary of the fatal landslide data for October 2010.
3 September 2010
August fatal landslide data
The end of the month marks the point at which I post the accumulated totals for fatal landslides, based upon the global fatal landslide database that I maintain. The raw figures for August are stark. The total number of fatal landslides recorded in the month was 71, resulting in 2,740 fatalities. This total is of course dominated by the Zhouqu landslide in China, which is reported to have resulted in …
14 July 2010
Fatal landslides in 2010: a half term report
Long term readers of this blog will know that one of its original purposes was to disseminate the work that I do collating data on fatal landslides worldwide. As the Attabad situation reduces in its intensity I plan to return to some of those key themes. So here is a half term report on the occurrence of fatal landslides in 2010. Numbers of landslides:As of the end of 30th June …
4 August 2009
Fatal landslides in July 2009 – map and report
Below is the fatal landslide map for July 2009. Each yellow dot represents a single landslide that killed a person. The background is the etopo1 DEM, with the darker colours representing higher terrain. As usual clicking on the image should provide a high resolution view. The image is a GIF so you should be able to download it, but please acknowledge the source. You will see that in July the …
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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