“Global patterns of loss of life from landslides” by prof. Dave Petley (free download)
Dave Petley is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the UK. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings and we simply love it! It is probably the best blog covering geological processes, with focus on landslides, mudslides, rockslides and sinkholes.
Durham University has now paid the page charges for his recent paper in Geology, which means that for the next two years it can be downloaded for free here.
This work is based on his fatality database, detailing the global cost of landslides worldwide, data collected and researched from September 1, 2002. You can read it here. The journal Geology has also placed it online.
Fatality map (There is a high-resolution image of the on the FTP site for you to download as both a TIF and a JPEG.)
The paper covers the period 2004-2010 and focuses on landslides caused by non-seismic processes (i.e. earthquakes are excluded). In that period, Dave Petley have recorded 32,322 deaths in 2,620 landslides. The dataset includes a map of the fatalities, which indicates where the global hotspots lie.
Some resources regarding the paper can be found on FTP site (ftp://topdog.dur.ac.uk/dnp/geology/ – WordPress seems to mangle the ftp address for some reason).
The global hotspots that emerge for landslides are as follows:
- Along the southern edge of the Himalayan Arc
- Along the coast of southwest India and in Sri Lanka
- Along the southern and eastern coastal regions of China, extending inland ~100 km
- In central China, most notably in the mountains surrounding the Sichuan Basin
- In the mountain chains along the western edge of the Philippine Sea plate
- In the central Caribbean islands
- In a chain that follows the mountains of Central America and South America from Mexico in the north to northern Chile in the south
- In Indonesia, most notably in and around the island of Java
The graph shows the cumulative total number of fatalities from landslides over the ten-year period. I have recorded a total of 89,177 fatalities from landslides in the decade, which of course represents an annual global toll of almost 9,000 people per year.
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“Global patterns of loss of life from landslides” by prof. Dave Petley (free download)
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