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5 July 2011
Downloadable presentation on landslides in South Asia
This post presents the powerpoint file for a talk glandsiven at ITC in the Netherlands on fatal landslide occurrence in South Asia. The powerpoint file can be downloaded.
22 July 2010
The slow-burn rainfall disaster in China, whilst the monsoon in South Asia is weak so far
Although it has received scant attention in the west, China is currently undergoing a classic slow-burn weather disaster associated with exceptional rainfall. The scale is remarkable – Xinhua reports that since 1st July, 273 people have been killed and 218 people are missing, 3 million people have been displaced from their homes and 58 million people have been affected directly. Economic losses are estimated to be about US$8.6 billion. This …
15 July 2009
Update on the South Asian Monsoon
The seasonal landslide pattern in South Asia remains very substantively below the long term mean this year – to date at least the monsoon is failing. The level of the problem is illustrated rather well by this map of the monsoon season rainfall anomaly for India, from Monsoon Online: The result is that the number of landslides in South Asia is very much below average, which is of course good …
22 June 2009
Fatal landslides in 2009 so far – a review on the solstice
The summer solstice today seems like a good time to take stock of the position with fatal landslides to date, as collected in the Durham Fatal Landslide Database. Globally the fatal landslide season really starts in early June, the point at which the Asian monsoon starts to generate substantial amounts of rainfall in South and East Asia. Of course the greatest proportion of landslides occur in July and August, so …
1 May 2008
Serious landslide in Indian Kashmir – at least 20 people killed
Updated: It appears that May has started with a terrible rockfall in Indian Kashmir (Figure 1). Reports are still rather sketchy, but it seems that the landslide occurred in the Chatroo area Kadiyah,which is about 220 kilometers from Jammu. The rockfall which happened on a road linking Kishtwar and Islamabad, seems to have been caused by blasting. Greater Kashmir online reports:Eyewitnesses said that the incident took place when some 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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