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14 March 2012
EERI report on the Sikkim Earthquake
An EERI report is now available on the Sikkim earthquake. Landslides caused immense damage, but are absent from the leassons learnt!
4 November 2011
Geological Survey of India report on landslide from the Sikkim earthquake
A new Geological Survey of India report describes some of the landslides triggered by the September 2011 Sikkim earthquake in India and Nepal
6 October 2011
A first look at NASA satellite imagery of the landslides from the Sikkim earthquake
Summary: This post presents for the first time NASA satellite images of the earthquake-affected area around Gangtok in Sikkim.
26 September 2011
Photo album from the Himalayan earthquake
A gallery of images of Sikkim after the earthquake, many showing landslides, is now available online.
25 September 2011
Landslide videos from India (x2), USA and China
Some remarkable new landslide videos have appeared this week: First, a nice new video has appeared on Youtube showing a landslide, reportedly from Uttrakhand in India, in action. It gets quite exciting at around the 3 minutes 45 second mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKID3LSOYrk And if you think it is interesting, take a look at this one, from Garwhal in India: This was also posted yesterday – definitely a landslide, but I am …
21 September 2011
The earthquake in the Himalayas, Typhoon Roke, and landslides in Guatemala and Rwanda
Updates on the earthquake in the Himalayas, the overtopping of landslide dams in Japan resulting from typhoon Roke, and landslides in Rwanda and Guatemala.
20 September 2011
First photos of the earthquake damage in Sikkim
First images of the damage in Sikkim.
Update on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus typhoon Roke, an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy
Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy
19 September 2011
Update on the earthquake in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet
An update on reported losses from the earthquake in the Himalayas yesterday. Landslides are clearly a major problem, and further heavy rainfall is forecast.
18 September 2011
First news – the earthquake in India, Nepal and Bhutan this afternoon
At 12:40 UT (18:40 local time) today an earthquake struck Sikkim in northern India, producing significant shaking in Nepal, India and, probably Bhutan. According to the USGS information page for the event, this is a magnitude 6.9 event at a depth of about 20 km, though note that this will probably change slightly as better data become available. The epicentre is located as shown on the map below: Although this …
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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