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2 October 2017
Karnali Highway in Nepal: the danger of collecting landslide videos (viewer beware)
A new video on Youtube, which shows a rockslide on the Karnali Highway in Nepal, provides a brutal illustration of the dangers of filming landslides
31 July 2017
Saldim Peak in Nepal: a glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
Saldim Peak in Nepal: new analyses suggest that the 20th April 2017 glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
24 July 2017
Larcha: a landslide destroys a key bridge in northern Nepal
On Sunday 23rd July 2017 a landslide destroyed the bridge over the Bhotekoshi river at Larcha in Nepal, severing the Araniko Highway
25 April 2017
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal: two years on
On the second anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, a recent paper compares the landslide distributions for the Nepal and China earthquakes. The results have profound implications for the understanding of potential landslide distributions from future earthquakes.
29 March 2017
Nepal rural roads: the hazards of construction without design
Gareth Hearn has written a very nice paper in QJEGH that considers landslide problems on Nepal rural roads, highlighting the need for better route selection and design
6 March 2017
Righa in Nepal: another landslide associated with a hydropower project
At Righa in Baglung District in Nepal, a valley-blocking landslide over the weekend was apparently triggered by road construction for a hydropower project
16 January 2017
Future shock – the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
To mark National Earthquake Day, the Nepal Times has a series of articles entitled Future Shock that examines the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake
9 January 2017
Naxal, Kathmandu: a landslide apparently caused by poor construction management
At 7 am yesterday a major collapse occurred on an important road in Naxal, Kathmandu, apparently triggered by poor construction techniques for a new hotel
13 October 2016
Nepal landslides 2016: losses at the end of the rainy season
Nepal landslides 2016: analysis of my dataset for the last 36 years suggest that 2016 was the worst year on record for landslide events.
4 September 2016
Taplejung: another burst of fatal landslides in Nepal
Over the last few days, 19 people have been killed by landslides in Nepal, with the most serious impacts occurring in Taplejung in the east of the country.
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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