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3 July 2014
Vietnam flash floods: a good new video
A video has been posted on Youtube showing a dramatic flash flood in Vietnam last month
20 June 2014
Monsoon 2014: late but starting to have an impact (including two good new landslide videos)
Monsoon 2014 in South Asia is late this year, but the 16 landslide deaths overnight in Nepal suggest that it is now having an impact.
21 May 2012
A huge relocation programme from riverbanks in Vietnam
Up to a million people may be forced to relocate in Vietnam as a result of landslide and flashfloods on riverbanks
30 September 2011
Typhoon Nalgae: High landslide potential in the Philippines over the next 24 Hours
A brief report on typhoon Nalgae, which is likely to make landfall in the Philippines in the next 24 hours.
9 June 2011
Some notable landslides in the last week
As I noted in my previous post, we are now just entering the global landslide season. In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last …
5 October 2010
Tailings landslide in Hungary and a dam crisis in Vietnam
News today, barely covered in the international mainstream media so far, of a new tailings-related landslide in Hungary yesterday. The only English report that I have seen so far is on the Chinese CriEnglish website, which reports that 700,000 cubic metres of bauxite ore formed a flow that struck three villages in Veszprem county. These villages appear to be Devecser, Somlóvásárhely and Kolontar. The Google Earth imagery of this area shows the origin if the accident …
2 October 2009
Typhoon Parma update, plus landslides in Indonesia, India, Sicily, Samoa, Cambodia and Vietnam
I am struggling to keep up with the natural disasters at the moment. The main point of this post is to highlight the continued threat of Typhoon Parma to the northern Philippines. The current track forecast has it making landfall in the next day or so in the northern part of Luzon. The forecasts are still that it will stall as it makes its way across that area – this …
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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