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<\/a>Petley et al.<\/em> 2007<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n Worst affected was Kaski District, which is very landslide-prone.\u00a0 The landslides that caused loss of life include:<\/p>\n Meanwhile the road between Pokhara and Baglung was also blocked by landslides.<\/p>\n The landslide at Lumle is particularly interesting.\u00a0 Ekantipur<\/a> describes it as follows:<\/p>\n “Our correspondent in Kaski said 23 people, including seven of a family, died while six others went missing at Majhgaun in Lumle-6.\u00a0 The casualty was high as a water tank with the capacity of 20,000 litres was swept just above the settlement. Ten houses were buried. Local people and security personnel rescued three people immediately after the disaster.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Note that different reports suggest different numbers of fatalities.\u00a0 Hopefully this will become clearer in the days ahead. Whilst it is tempting to link this to the earthquake, this is looks like just a normal monsoon rainfall event, the sort that happens every year.\u00a0 So far we are not seeing anomalously high levels of landslides, primarily because the monsoon is very weak. This graph shows rainfall through the first half of the month in Kathmandu versus the average (from My Republica<\/a>):<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n On average July is the month with the heaviest rainfall in Nepal, but there is so much inter-annual variation that it should not be assumed that we are out of the woods as yet.<\/p>\nKaski District:<\/h6>\n
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Myagdi District:<\/h6>\n
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Baglung Distruct<\/h6>\n
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Chitwan District<\/h6>\n
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