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4 March 2015
Chitral and Humla – two new valley-blocking landslides in the high mountains of South Asia?
Reports emerged yesterday of two new valley-blocking landslides in the high mountains of South Asia, one in Humla, Nepal and one in Chitral, Pakistan
19 February 2015
Paglajhora: another progressive road failure video
A video on Youtube shows a road collapse event that destroyed a truck at Paglajhora in Darjeeling. The landslide was a part of a much larger and very active slope failure that seems to have been initiated and exacerbated by poor slope management practices
20 January 2015
Zanskar River landslide: more information
New images have emerged of the landslide that has blocked the Zanskar River in northern India
28 April 2014
Upper Madi Hydroelectric Project – another fatal landslide at a major power scheme in the Himalayas
On Friday a landslide at the Upper Madi HEP project site in Nepal trapped workers in a tunnel. Most were rescued but three lost their lives. Undortunately this is just the latest in a series of landslides associated with hydroelectric schemes in the Himalayas.
21 June 2013
The Kedarnath debris flow disaster in Uttarakhand
It is becoming clear that a very large landslide disaster has occurred at Kedarnath in northern India, potentially with a very high level of loss
11 June 2013
The Himalayan Landslide Society and the 11th International Symposium on Mitigation of Geo-Disasters in Asia
The newly formed Himalayan Landslide Society is organising a meeting on the mitigation of geo-disasters in Asia in October this year
26 May 2013
Landslides and large dams – there may be trouble ahead…
Many large dams will be constructed in and around the Himalayas in the next few years. This post examines the associated landslide threat
16 January 2013
New research: extreme precipitation and landslides in 2010
A review of a paper examining the linkages between high levels of landslides in 2010 and large scale rainfall patterns
21 September 2010
Gifts and Perils of Landslides
Ken Hewitt has written a wonderful article for Scientific American entitled “Gifts and Perils of Landslides”, in which he examines the inter-relationship between the development of society and the occurrence of landslides in the Upper Indus valleys. Ken is the guru of high mountain landslides in Pakistan, having spent many field seasons mapping rock avalanche deposits in the remote upper valleys of the Hindu Kush. The article is available online …
18 January 2010
Potential landslides in California and the ongoing crisis in Hunza, Pakistan
Amongst the (appropriate) focus upon Haiti at the moment, we must of course remember that landslides do not stop elsewhere. So, here are two important ongoing stories: 1. Potential landslides in California this week:The US National Weather Service has issued a series of warnings for very heavy rainfall in California this week, with the pontential for landslides, flash flood and debris flows. For example: …Flash flooding and debris flows possible …
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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