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4 October 2009
Emerging news of landslides triggered by the Sumatra earthquake
It is interesting to note that in all three of the large earthquakes upon which I have worked (1999 Taiwan, 2005 Pakistan, 2008 China), the media has tended to initially focus their coverage upon urban areas, whilst the real story has actually been in the rural hinterland. The reasons for this are complex of course, and include the power of the imagery of people buried / being rescued from buildings. …
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 …
4 September 2009
The Cikangkareng village landslide, Indonesia
As I reported a couple of days ago, the Mw=7.0 earthquake in Indonesia on Wednesday triggered a substantive landslide in the village of Cikangkareng in West Java. This landslide buried ten houses, a mosque and an amusement (video game) arcade with the loss of about 57 lives. AP have today released images of the landslide that are quite interesting. In particular this one: Why is this interesting? Well, first lets …
2 September 2009
Updated: A large landslide triggered by the latest Indonesian earthquake
A large (Mw = 7.0) earthquake struck offshore Java in Indonesia today at 07:55 UTC (2:55 am local time). USGS has a location map (below) and earthquake parameters, a shake map, etc here. AP is reporting that a large landslide was triggered in Rawa Hideung village, Cianjur district in Java: “Antara reported that 12 families, or about 30 people, were trapped in houses buried by the landslide in Rawa Hideung …
18 January 2009
Landslide in Lombok, Indonesia
The Jakarta Globe is today reporting a quite large landslide at Buwun Mas village in West Nusa Tenggara Province. This slide is reported to have killed at least four people, with a further 11 potential victims believed to be buried in the debris. The report is quite interesting as it says that: “The area, [Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Ministry of Health’s Crisis Center] said, is used for illegal …
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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