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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
5 May 2010
EGU Day 2 – afternoon sessions on vulnerability, plus Italian landslide statistics
In the afternoon of Day 2 I decided to focus more on the human / vulnerability side of natural hazards, and went to two sessions on Social Sciences in Natural Hazards Research. First up was Katie Oven from Durham, with a number of co-authors , who talked about landslide hazards in Nepal . Now I was the principal supervisor of this research, but I am going to write about it …
24 October 2008
Forced to flee
IRIN, the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, has produced a rather nice video about the impact of lahars (a landslide in comparatively young volcanic materials) in the Philippines. The landslide occurred during Typhoon Durian (known in the Philippines as typhoon Reming) in 2006. Wikipedia image of the track of typhoon Durian (Reming) in 2006. The orange dots indicate the locations at which the typhoon was at its …
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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