This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Monday, 2 August 2010

Images of landslides triggered by the Haiti earthquake

The USGS have posted a set of images taken by Randy Jibson and Ed Harp of landslides triggered by the Haiti earthquake earlier this year.  The images may be found here:

http://landslides.usgs.gov/learning/photos/international/haiti_earthquake-induced_landslides__january_12__2010

Although the occurrence of landslides was certainly lower than we might have expected, there are some interesting landslides included:


A useful resource and a salient reminder of the threats that the people of Haiti face during this hurricane season.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://pamirtimes.net/2010/08/03/latest-from-the-dammed-hunza-river/

-Tropical

(Blogger won't let me use OpenID)

10:08 pm, August 02, 2010
apple said...

This is one of the worst calamity that happened to our history. Hope it will never happen again, especially in Haiti.

Check out the latest earthquake news here-->http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/tag/earthquake

8:30 am, December 27, 2012

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