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22 March 2016
Multiple landslides in the last few days in northern India and Pakistan
Over the last week, heavy rainfall has triggered multiple landslides in northern India and Pakistan, causing significant loss of life and extensive damage.
14 March 2016
Managing urban landslides
On the last day of my visit to Kalimpong, Praful Rao took me to Dumsi Pakha, a poor hillside community with problems in managing urban landslides
8 March 2016
Kalimpong Day 4 part 1: An interesting and deadly roadside landslide
Kalimpong Day 4: an interesting and hard to manage rockslide that killed two people on State High 31A in India in January 2016
6 March 2016
Kalimpong Day 3: the downstream effects of poor urban water management
On Kalimpong Day 3 we visited a gully that is being actively eroded as a result of poor urban water management in the town
4 March 2016
Kalimpong Day 2: landslides on the eastern face
Kalimpong Day 2: the second day of the SHAMROCC visit involved a visit to several landslides on the eastern face of Kalimpong.
1 March 2016
Darjeeling day 1: Landslides on National Highway 10
On Day 1 of our UKIERI visit to Darjeeling in India we visited a landslide site on National Highway 10 that caused major problems in 2015
12 December 2015
Two interesting landslide videos from Congjiang, China and Manali, India
Two dramatic landslides appeared on Youtube this week, a huge rockfall from Manali in India and a landslide destroying houses in Congjiang, China
14 August 2015
Mangdechu in Bhutan – another significant landslide at a hydroelectric power plant site
Today the Mangdechu Hydroelectric power in Bhutan was hit by a major landslide, killing 5 workers. This is the latest in a string of fatal landslides at HEP sites in Asia.
22 July 2015
Chamoli: a large and spectacular failure caught on video
News24 has posted a video of a large and dramatic landslide that occurred in Chamoli, Uttarakhand this week. The post also includes a round up of landslide events elsewhere in South and Central Asia this week.
20 July 2015
Kalimpong: Save the Hills has documented the fatal landslides of 30th June / 1st July 2015
The Save the Hills blog has documented the landslides that occurred in the Kalimpong area of Darjeeling, N India on 3th June / 1st July 2015
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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