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.

Sunday, 7 November 2010

Landslide fatality statistics for October 2010

For those that are new to my blog, one aspect of my research is to maintain a database of landslides that kill people.  This has been running since September 2002 (i.e. for eight years so far).  So, each month I try to produce a brief report on the number landslide events that have entered the database, and the number of fatalities that resulted.  This should be treated as provisional at this stage as I have some further verification work to do.

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