The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 26 August 2022, an extreme monsoonal rainfall event struck the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. This is a remote area with poor communications, so this event has not received the attention […]
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The 8 October 2005 Hattian Bala landslide in Pakistan
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I was recently pondering some of the most interesting landslides on which I have worked during my career, and was reminded of the 8 October 2005 Hattian Bala landslide in Kashmir, Pakistan. […]
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The causes of the 18 April 2023 Torkham Rockslide in Pakistan
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 18 April 2023, a destructive rockslide hit the border town of Torkham in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in NW Pakistan. I blogged about the Torkham Rockslide at the time, speculating that undercutting […]
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Using Bayesian Estimation to Improve Methane Inventories
A Bayesian, optimal estimation evaluation of state-of-the-art methane inventory with satellite-based emissions from 2009 to 2018 finds substantial differences for livestock, rice, and coal emissions.
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Machine Learning Helps Constrain the Thickness of Ancient Crust
A machine learning model trained using data on the chemical composition of magmatic rocks yields comparable, if not better, results to previously developed geochemical proxies.
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A Monsoon-Filled Reservoir Might Have Nudged a Fault to Fail
New research examines whether a sudden increase in water loading in Pakistan’s Mangla Dam might have been connected to the 2019 New Mirpur earthquake.
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Record Locust Swarms Hint at What’s to Come with Climate Change
Warming oceans that feed cyclones have also bred record-breaking swarms of desert locusts. Such plagues could grow bigger and more widespread with climate change.
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Growing More with Less Using Cell Phones and Satellite Data
Researchers from the University of Washington and Pakistan are using 21st century technology to revive farming as a profitable profession in the Indus Valley.
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Elders Recall an Earlier Tsunami on Indian Ocean Shores
Legacies of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami include recent interviews with lucid eyewitnesses to an obscure disaster in 1945. The accounts attest to coastal hazards in Oman, Iran, Pakistan, and India.