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29 May 2008
Two new photographs of the Beichuan area
I came across these two new images, both from AP, of the Beichuan area. The first shows the landslide that struck Beichuan itself. The landslide is on the left side of the image. Note the debris piled up around its edges – the landslide has clearly bulldozed all before it. The second is an alarming image of the work underway on the Tangjiashan landslide dam. The shear scale of the …
11 May 2008
Landslide sizes (numbers killed) around the world
One of the interesting aspects of our landslide fatality database is that it is possible to produce maps of the size of the impact of landslides (which in this case means the numbers of people killed) in each event around the world. I tried to do that for my EGU presentation, but my colleague Nick Rosser has produced a rather more attractive version (Fig. 1) showing the 2007 dataset. Fig …
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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