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26 March 2018
NASA models landslide climatology
NASA has released a series of animations that visualise global landslide climatology using their Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) model
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.
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.
12 February 2010
Maps of global fatal landslides
NB there is an alaysis of the data in thiese maps in this post:http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/analysis-of-fatal-landslides-in-asia.html I have recently worked up two new maps of the distribution of fatal landslides, based upon the fatal landslide database that I maintain. This first map shows the global distribution of non-seismic landslides for the period 2006-2008. Each dot represents a single fatal landslide. The colours indicate the year: Red = 2008Blue = 2007Green = 2006 …
25 May 2009
Fatal landslide map for 2009 to date
I have been a little remiss in posting these maps of late due to other pressures. Below is the distribution of fatal landslides that I have recorded in 2009 to date. Each red dot represents a single landslide that killed at least one person. All types of landslide (including debris flows and rockfalls) are included: You can click on the map for a better version in a new window. One …
17 May 2009
Landslides and the UN’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
Landslides and the UN's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
30 December 2008
Losses in catastrophes in 2008 – initial statistics from Swiss Re
Tropical Cyclone Nargis montage from the Brisbane Times Swiss Re Sigma has just released its initial statistics on losses in catastrophes in 2008. Of course it is important to understand that reinsurance look at catastrophes in a particular way, meaning that the statistics are weighted in particular to low frequency – high magnitude events, rather than iterative processes, and to losses causing a high level of financial loss. There is …
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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