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6 August 2010
Debris flow disaster in Leh, Indian Kashmir
Thanks to several people for the heads up on this. Various Indian news agencies are reporting that the town of Leh in Ladakh, Indian controlled Kashmir was hit by a series of debris flows / flas floods triggered by a cloudburst. The reported death toll is currently reported to be at least 50, and may increase substantially. This Panoramio image gives a fairly good idea of what Leh is like:
21 July 2010
New rockfall video from India
A good new rockfall video has been posted on Youtube, collected in the Pangi Valley of Himachal Pradesh in India:
9 December 2009
Presentation of lanslides caused by Tropical Cyclone Aila in Darjeeling
The Savethehills blog has an interesting presentation on their website focusing on the landslides caused by Tropical Cyclone Aila in Northern India in May this year. It can be accessed here: http://savethehills.blogspot.com/2009/12/cyclone-aila-in-photographs.html
11 November 2009
A surprising spell of landslides
In most years in which I have been collecting landslide fatality statistics (since 2002) November has been a month with quite low landslide occurrence. Not this year though – in fact the last few days have been more like the summer monsoon season, with fatal landslides occurring in a wide range of places. Examples include: El Salvador on 6th November, in which the volcanic lahars triggered by Hurricane Ida appear …
10 November 2009
Reported landslide accident in SW India
AP is reporting that a landslide in S India has killed 39 people. The landslide occurred in the Ooty and Coonoor region of Tamil Nadu states, hitting 300 mud huts. The report quotes a “state flood control official” as saying that 14 bodies were recovered on Monday and a further 25 today. Tamil Nadu is in the very south of India. The TRMM landslide warning system has this region as …
4 October 2009
Landslide round-up: Philippines, India and Italy
1. PhilippinesTyphoon Parma (known as Pepeng in the Philippines) has churned its way across the northern part of Luzon in the Philippines. Fortunately, its track took it north of the most vulnerable area, which is the first bit of good news for a while: However, early reports are that the storm has triggered some landslides: “Rains in Benguet province set off landslides in which at least 12 people were killed, …
2 October 2009
Typhoon Parma update, plus landslides in Indonesia, India, Sicily, Samoa, Cambodia and Vietnam
I am struggling to keep up with the natural disasters at the moment. The main point of this post is to highlight the continued threat of Typhoon Parma to the northern Philippines. The current track forecast has it making landfall in the next day or so in the northern part of Luzon. The forecasts are still that it will stall as it makes its way across that area – this …
24 August 2009
A bad summer for landslides in Darjeeling District, India
Regular readers will know that I occasionally highlight the great work being undertaken by a small group of concerned citizens, Save the Hills, to raise awareness of landslides in Darjeeling District in northern India. This work is profiled in a blog, Visions of Hell, run by Praful Rao. As this is an area affected by the SW Monsoon, the summer is the main landslide season in this region. Although the …
10 August 2009
A dreadful weekend of landslides
The last few days have been a dreadful period for landslides. I really cannot cover all that has happened in enough detail, so all I can do is to outline the main events: 1. Rotorua rockfall, New ZealandActually the period started with a very lucky escape in New Zealand on Thursday when a rockfall on a slope under maintenance crushed a car with two passengers. Both were trapped but were …
2 August 2009
The low level of NH hurricanes and typhoons in summer 2009
One of the reasons that the northern hemisphere summer is essentially the global landslide season is that landfalling tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) represent a rather efficient way of triggering slope failures. This is especially the case in the Caribbean, Taiwan, Japan, SE and S China, the Philippines and Vietnam. Typhoon rain is astonishing to experience for the first time – peak intensities of 100 mm per hour are not …
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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