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14 July 2010
Fatal landslides in 2010: a half term report
Long term readers of this blog will know that one of its original purposes was to disseminate the work that I do collating data on fatal landslides worldwide. As the Attabad situation reduces in its intensity I plan to return to some of those key themes. So here is a half term report on the occurrence of fatal landslides in 2010. Numbers of landslides:As of the end of 30th June …
12 August 2008
July 2008 fatal landslide map
The map below shows the provisional distribution of fatal landslides for June 2008. The (again provisional) statistics are:Number of fatal landslides: 55Number of fatalities: 2127 Once again, the number of recorded fatalities this month has been substantially below the average for 2002-2007, which is 504 deaths. This is consistent with the monthly totals for the whole of the year – indeed at the moment 2008 has the lowest number of …
2 July 2008
June 2008 fatal landslide map
The map below shows the distribution of fatal landslides for June 2008. The statistics are:Number of fatal landslides: 43Number of fatalities: 215 As has been the pattern all year, June was substantially below the average number of fatalities for may in 2003-2007, which is 334 deaths. Interestingly, during June there have been extensive reports of intense and prolonged rainfall events, but this does not seem to have translated into fatal …
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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