{"id":6761,"date":"2013-07-31T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:13:14","slug":"the-darjeeling-landslide-disaster-of-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/07\/31\/the-darjeeling-landslide-disaster-of-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darjeeling landslide disaster of 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"

The excellent Save the Hills blog<\/a> has a really interesting presentation online by Praful Rao about the landslide disaster in June1950 in Darjeeling, Northern India<\/a>.\u00a0 The presentation is available on Authorstream<\/a> and I have embedded it below:<\/p>\n

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This Darjeeling landslide disaster appears to have been triggered by a strong rainfall event on 12th June 1950, in which 546 mm of rainfall fell.\u00a0 As a result, 127 people are known to have died in the landslides.<\/p>\n

Included in the presentation are some quite wonderful photographs of the landslides, taken by Durga Das Pradhan, the majority of which appear to have been shallow failures such as this:<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mr Durga Das Pradhan<\/p><\/div>\n

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However, there is one case of a shallow slide that appears to have become a channelised debris flow:<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mr Durga Das Pradhan<\/p><\/div>\n

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And one landslide that has a rather complex morphology (take a look at the railway line):<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mr Durga Das Pradhan<\/p><\/div>\n

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