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13 April 2010
Junk natural hazards science of the month – earthquake risks to the World Cup in South Africa
Although this is meant to be a blog on landslides, occasionally things appear in other areas of natural hazards that are so irritatingly ridiculous that I just can’t let them go. And so in the last few days a story has been doing the rounds about earthquake risk to the forthcoming football World Cup in South Africa. For example, The Daily Star newspaper in the UK (not necessarily worth reading …
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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