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20 March 2010
The water level and seepage at the Attabad landslide – graphs of the current situation
Latest update: 25th March 2010 08:00 GMT I thought it would be useful to post a graph of the current state of play with the water and spillway levels, as I understand it. The water level is from the NDMA daily(ish) updates; the spillway height comes from the freeboard measurement from FOCUS. Needless to say I have no way to validate this data. Graph as of 23rd March 2010 (the …
10 March 2010
Attabad landslide – the Pakistan Government response
Yesterday a meeting was held by the Ministry of the Environment in Islamabad to discuss the Attabad landslide, based at least in part on my report from my recent field visit on behalf of Focus. I am glad to say that the upshot of that meeting is that the authorities are now preparing an evacuation plan for a potential breach of the lake, according to this report: “As over 15,000 …
9 March 2010
Another life lost at Attabad
Construction of the spillway at Attabad in northern Pakistan continues, but there is little doubt that the construction workers at the site, and indeed those walking over the dam to access the boat service, face considerable risks from rockfalls from the original landslide scar. On 4th March such a rockfall occurred, striking two people on the upslope face of the landslide deposit. One, an army bulldozer driver, was injured whilst …
5 March 2010
The Attabad landslide in N. Pakistan – some initial images from my field visit this week
I am now back from my comparatively short but very interesting trip to the Attabad landslide in N. Pakistan. I will make a series of posts about this serious but very interesting landslide over the next few days. As a taster, here a few images of the site. The first image was taken from the top of the 1858 Salmanabad landslide deposit, looking upstream to the Attabad slide. The scar …
19 February 2010
A landslide dam in Haiti caused by the earthquake
Thanks to Lynn Highland for the heads-up on this one. The French language website cyberpresse.ca has an article describing a valley blocking landslide triggered by the Haiti earthquake. The translation says: “The dam is large and there are still several tens of metres before the water passes over it. The problem is that it has hardly rained since the earthquake of January 12. When the rainy season triggers, a few …
10 February 2010
Continuing works on the Attabad landslide
The National Disaster Management Authority in Pakistan is posting daily updates on the situation with the Attabad landslide on its website here. The reports appear with a lag of about 4 days, but nonetheless provide a helpful insight into the rate of progress. As of 6th Feb a total of 26,000 cubic metres of debris had been moved to create the spillway. Meanwhile the lake level is increasing at 60 …
7 February 2010
The Attabad landslide – caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
News from the landslide site at Attabad is increasingly grim, despite the ongoing work to create a spillway. The Pamir Times has an excellent article here outlining the impact of the rapidly expanding lake. This lake is now 11 km long and has inundated 460,000 square metres of land, 11 houses and 3.5 km of the Karakoram highway. However, the spillway that is under construction is a further 79 m …
25 January 2010
Continuing concerns about the landslide dam at Attabad in Hunza, Pakistan
The Pamir Times continues to provide excellent coverage of the state of the landslide dam at Attabad in Hunza, N. Pakistan (see earlier posts here, here, here and here). First, they have posted another remarkable image of the landslide in action: Second they have provided various reports on the state of the efforts to mitigate the rising water level and to reopen the highway. It is clear that the road …
9 January 2010
Detailed information and amazing images of the catastrophic Attabad (Atabad or Atta Abad) landslide in Hunza, Pakistan
See update from 11th January 2010 here Pamir Times image of the landslide A few days I ago I posted on reports of the Attabad landslide (which is variously described as the Atabad landslide or the Atta Abad landslide) in Hunza, Pakistan. There has been very little information about this bar various reports that it was not as bad as had been feared. However, Reliefweb has today published a report …
20 December 2009
On the perils of Lake Sarez (Usoi) in Tajikistan
Science this week has an article (Stone 2009) on the perils associated with Lake Sarez in the Pamirs. Sarez is a huge lake (56 km long and with a volume of 17 billion cubic metres of water) that was formed by a landslide triggered by the 1911 earthquake in Tajikistan (see image below). Google Earth image of Lake Sarez. The landslide dam is to west (left). Google Earth image of …
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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