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ICL Newsletter Issue No.10, 28 May 2007
Contents
1. Report of 5th BOR/ICL and ICL 2006 Symposium
2. IPL GPC and IPL2007 Symposium
3. MoU between ICL and ICSU
4. Best Paper Award for Vol.3 of Landslides: the Journal of the
International
Consortium on Landslides
5. Plan of the First World Landslide Forum
6. Publication of IPL Leaflet and a book “Progress in Landslide
Science”
7. List of ICL Members as of 1 May 2007
8. Information of ICL Meetings
9. Recent Landslide Occurrence News
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1. Report of the Fifth session of the Board of Representatives
of ICL
Date: 23-24th November 2006
Place: Room XIII of Bonvin Building, UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris.
Participants:
ICL Supporting Organizations: Koichiro Matsuura
(Director-General of UNESCO), Badaoui Rouhban
(Section Chief for Disaster Reduction of UNESCO), Salvano
Briceno (Director UN/ISDR), Howard
Moore (Senior Advisor ICSU), Hongren Zhang (President IUGS)
Board Members: Peter Bobrowsky (Geological Survey of Canada),
Wei Shan (Northeast Forestry
University, China), Yueping Yin (China Geological Survey), Jiri
Zvelebil (Charles University, Czech
Republic),Vit Vilimek (Charles University, Czech Republic), Rolf
Katzenbach (Technische Universitat
Darmstadt, Germany), Claudio Margottini ENEA (Italian Agency for
New technologies Energy and
Environment), Nicola Casagli (University of Firenze, Italy),
Paolo Canuti (University of Firenze, Italy),
Hideaki Marui (Niigata University, Japan), Hiroshi Fukuoka
(Kyoto University, Japan), Kaoru Takara
Kyoto University, Japan), Kyoji Sassa (Kyoto University, Japan),
Roslan Zainal Abidin (Mara
University of Technology, Malaysia), Farrokh Nadim
(International Centre for Geohazards, Norway),
Oddvar Kjekstad (International Centre for Geohazards, Norway),
Alexander Strom (Institute of the
Geospheres Dynamics, Russia), Oleg Zerkal (Federal State Unitary
Geological Enterprise Scientific
Centre "HydGeo" Russia), Alexander PIOTROVSKIY and V.
ISOTOCHNIKOV (Open Joint-Stock Company Engineering Centre, Russia),
Jan Vlcko (Comenius University, Slovakia), Vladimir Greif (Comenius
University, Slovakia), Aniruth Potichan (Ministry of Agriculture
and Cooperatives,
Thailand), Bandit Tansiri (Ministry of Agriculture and
Cooperatives, Thailand), Chumpol
Lilittham(Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand),
Peter T. Lyttle (U. S. Geological Survey,
USA), Yang Hong (National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
USA)
Observers: Wolfgang Eder (ICL, Technical Advisor, Germany),
Edward Bromhead (University of
Kingston, UK), Maia Ibsen (University of Kingston, UK), Norbert
and Mrs. Morgenstern (University of
Alberta, Canada)
Agenda 9:00-18:00 on 23 November 2006
1. Opening
1) Welcome Address from General-Director of UNESCO Mr. Koïchiro
Matsuura
2) Greetings from Director of UN/ISDR Mr. Sálvano Briceño
3) Greeting from Senior Advisor of ICSU Mr. Howard Moore
4) Greeting from President of IUGS Mr. Zhang Hongren
5) Opening Address for the BOR by ICL President Mr. Kyoji
Sassa
6) Introduction to the RTD (Round Table Discussion, Tokyo,
January 2006) and WLF
(World Landslide Forum, Tokyo, November 2008) by Mr. Kyoji
Sassa
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2. Conferment of Best Paper Award, Varnes Medal
1) 2006 Varnes Medal
2) Best Paper Award in 2004
3) Best Paper Award in 2005
3. IPL Projects Review
1) Report of ongoing projects
2) Examination of new project proposals
4. ICL 2006 Symposium
Oral presentations and poster presentations.
9:00-16:30 on 24 November 2006
1. Reports and Approval of ICL Activities
1) ICL members and Participants for 5th BOR
(1) Approval of ICL new member organizations, and their
representatives and alternative
representatives
(2) Termination and Changes of ICL member organizations
(3) Participants for the 5th BOR
2) Approval of the Minutes of 4th BOR
3) Publication of ICL Journal “Landslides”
4) Report of Launching Ceremony of the Organization Committee of
the First World Landslide Forum
5) MoUs between ICL and Global Stakeholders to Promote the 2006
Tokyo Action Plan
6) Europe Centre of ICL
7) Davos Appeal in the International Disaster Reduction
Conference 2006
8) Investigation on the Guinsaugon landslide, Southern Leyte,
Philippines
2. ICL Committee
1) Activity report in 2006 and Plan of Activities in 2007
2) Examination of committee activities
3. IPL Management Committee
4. Examination of IPL Global Promotion Committee and IPL World
Centre
The framework to implement the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan, and
activities including “Journal
Database” and “Database for Landslides of the World”
5. Activity Plans
1) IPL Symposium in Tokyo, January 2007
2) The First North American Landslide Conference in Vail,
Colorado and STC meeting in 2007
3) 2007 BOR meeting at UNESCO, Paris
4) 2008 STC meeting at UN/ISDR, Geneva
5) The First Landslide Forum at UNU, Tokyo, November 2008
6. 2005 Financial Statement and 2007 Budget
7. Others
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Outline ICL organized the fifth session of the Board of
Representatives of ICL (BOR/ICL) at the UNESCO
Headquarters, Paris, on 23–24 November 2006. The session was
attended by 42 people. It was opened by a
welcoming address by Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, DG of UNESCO, and
followed by greetings from Mr.
Salvano Briceno, Director of the UN/ISDR, Mr. Howard Moore,
representative of the ICSU, and Prof.
Zhang Hongren, President of IUGS. The Board discussed and
approved the plan of the First WLF and
related matters. At this BOR, the 2006 Varnes Medal of ICL was
bestowed to Prof. Norbert R.
Morgenstern (Department of Civil Engineering, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada). The 2004 Best
Paper Award for Landslides, the Journal of ICL was bestowed upon
Dr. Claudio Margottini for his paper
“Instability and geotechnical problems of the Buddha niches and
surrounding cliff in Bamiyan Valley,
central Afghanistan,” which was published in vol. 1, no. 1. The
2005 Best Paper Award was presented to
Rex Baum and his colleagues for the paper “Regional
landslide-hazard assessment for Seattle, Washington,
USA.” Figure 1 is a group photo commemorating the fifth session
of the BOR/ICL. Those sitting at the
table from left to right are Peter Lyttle (US Geological
Survey), Zhang Hongren (IUGS President, China),
Badaoui Rouhban (UNESCO), Kyoji Sassa (KU), Koïchiro Matsuura
(UNESCO), Salvano Briceno
(UN/ISDR), Howard Moore (ICSU), and Paolo Canuti (University of
Florence). The standing couple in the
center is Prof. and Mrs. Norbert Morgenstern; Prof. Morgenstern
was the recipient of the fourth Varnes
Medal.
Fig. 1 Group photo at the fifth session of the Board of
Representatives of ICL at the UNESCO
Headquarters, Paris
The opening speech by Mr. Matsuura is introduced in next
pages.
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On the occasion of the Fifth Session of the Board of
Representative of ICL UNESCO, 23 November 2006 Address by Mr.
Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
Mr. Chairman,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to UNESCO. This is
the second time that the Board of
Representatives of the International Consortium on Landslides
(ICL) has held a session at UNESCO. The
prevention and mitigation of natural disasters is of particular
concern to this Organization. We are
honoured to host your meeting.
I would like to give a particularly warm welcome to Professor
Kyoji Sassa, the President of ICL. I further
wish to extend my special greetings to: Mr. Salvano Briceno,
Director of the Secretariat of the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Mr. Howard Moore,
representative of the International
Council for Science; and Professor Zhang Hongren, President of
the International Union of Geological
Sciences. May I also thank all the other distinguished
representatives, who have come from near and far to
be with us here today.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your Consortium addresses a problem of critical importance in
today’s world. Natural disasters are
increasing in terms of frequency, complexity, scope and
destructive capacity. Recent years have witnessed
a series of natural disasters of devastating impact:
earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and wildfires. Landslides,
too, are growing in frequency and in force. They wreak havoc
today in almost every region of the world,
constituting a hazard that is both ubiquitous and extremely
damaging.
Each year landslides cost billions of dollars and cause numerous
fatalities and injuries. Landslides can also
cause enormous damage to property, destroying homes,
infrastructure and agriculture. They act as a
serious break on development efforts, in particular in least
developed countries (LDCs).
The trend of rising rainfall levels and incidence threatens to
drastically increase the damage caused by
landslides. Again, this is especially true in developing
countries, where pressure on land resources often
leads to slope cultivation, enlarging the danger of landslide
disasters. Improved mitigation, awareness and
education are therefore urgently needed, if we are to reduce the
destructive—often devastating—effects of
these hazards.
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The ICL has a crucial role to play in this regard. Founded in
2002, your Consortium has developed a global,
multidisciplinary landslides’ programme. UNESCO has always
advocated that disaster prevention and
mitigation needs to engage not only science and technology, but
also education, communication and
culture. The holistic approach adopted by the ICL is an
excellent example of what can be achieved when
scientific research and capacity-building are integrated with
social and cultural considerations, as well as
with strategies for education and public awareness-raising.
The ICL also provides an important forum for coordinating
international expertise in landslide risk
assessment, prevention and mitigation. The complexity and
importance of the issue at hand demands
effective collaboration among a broad range of partners. It is
imperative that we work together, and
coherently. This is particularly important for the many UN
agencies involved in risk mitigation, especially
in light of the recommendations of the recently published report
of the High-Level Panel on UN
System-wide Coherence.
I wish to underline that UNESCO places great importance on
cooperation with its NGO and UN partners,
we well as with actors engaged in the United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction.
UNESCO is committed to working closely with the ISDR in pursuit
of our common goals, and is an active
stakeholder within the ISDR system.
The 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on Landslides represents a
significant step forward in the drive towards
greater coherence. The Plan was adopted during the Tokyo Round
Table Discussion on Landslides in
January 2006. It provides a roadmap for strengthening
international collaboration by formulating a
framework for cooperation and identifying focus areas for
reducing landslide risk worldwide.
In Tokyo, in August of this year, I signed with Professor Sassa
a Memorandum of Understanding that will
help to formulize UNESCO’s cooperation with ICL in the
implementation of the Action Plan. I am
especially pleased that UNESCO will serve as co-organizer with
ICL of the planned World Landslide
Forum. This Forum will constitute a milestone in our efforts to
strengthen global risk preparedness.
Let me take this opportunity to reaffirm UNESCO’s support for
ICL. UNESCO played an instrumental
role in the foundation of the Consortium, and since then we have
developed a highly effective partnership.
I hope that on the basis of the new MoU we will reinforce our
collaboration still further.
Disaster preparedness and mitigation are set to figure
prominently within UNESCO’s new medium-term
strategy. The aim is to reinforce the Organization’s role in
this area, and in particular to mobilize the full
potential of our multidisciplinary mandate. I believe that this
will make UNESCO a stronger and more
effective partner in several fields of risk reduction, including
landslides.
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I look forward with great interest to the outcomes of your
meeting. May this occasion serve to advance
international cooperation in the evaluation, prevention and
mitigation of landslide hazards. Let me assure
you that for its part, UNESCO stands ready to fully engage its
expertise in support of this goal.
I wish you all a very successful meeting.
Thank you very much.
ICL 2006 Symposium was held at the afternoon on 23 November
2006. The following papers were
presented.
Oral Presentation
Canuti Paolo, Casagli Nicola,Falorni Giacomo, Nocentini
Massimiliano: Geotechnical investigation
and dynamic modelling of the 30 April 2006 debris flows on
Ischia Island
Yueping Yin: Landslide Hazard and loss Mitigation Methods in
China
Roslan Zainal Abidin & Badiah Sujak: Landslide risk with
regards to rainfall erosivity
Zdenek Patzelt, Zuzana Varilova, Vit Vilimek: Hydrogeology of
Machu Picchu as a key factor of
geodynamic phenomena
Jiří Zvelebil, Filip Hartvich: Site-friendly dilatometric slope
monitoring at Celtic Mountain Citadel of
Obří Hrad, S. Bohemia
Yang Hong, Robert F Adler, George J Huffman: Evaluation of the
potential of multi-satellite
precipitation analysis in global landslide hazard assessment
Poster Presentation
Ranjan Deka, A.K. Pachauri, Bharat Bhushan: Rockfall velocity
simulation modeling and potentials
of geographic information sciences (GIS) in its evaluation
Wei Shan, Wei Gao, Yanqiu Xing: Shallow slope stability analysis
for earth cut slope of high-rank
highway in seasonally frozen regions
Vladimir Kutepov, German Postoyev, Valentina Svalova: Landslide
hazard monitoring on sites of
historical heritage in Moscow
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2. Report of the First Session of IPL Global Promotion Committee
and IPL Symposium 2007
The First Session of IPL Global Promotion Committee and IPL
Symposium 2007 -Landslide Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster
Management- were held at Elizabeth Rose Hall, United Nations
University, Tokyo, on 22-25 January 2007. Ninety-six participants
from UN/ISDR, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, UNU, World Bank, ICSU, IUGS, IUGG,
IGU, as well as ICL member organizations attended the
meeting. The following shows the details of the Committee
meeting and IPL Symposium 2007.
Organizers: International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UN/ISDR), United Nations University (UNU), United
Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World
Bank(WB), International Council for
Science (ICSU), World Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WFEO), Kyoto University (KU), Japan
Landslide Society (JLS), and Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for
UNESCO (ACCU)
Background and Objectives are as below. In January 2006, the
2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International Programme on Landslides
(IPL) was
adopted by the international community. The adoption of the 2006
Tokyo Action Plan took place on the
occasion of the 2006 Tokyo Round Table Discussion “Strengthening
Research and Learning on Earth
System Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management within
UN-ISDR as Regards
Landslides”-towards a dynamic global network of the
International Programme on Landslides (IPL). This
discussion was held at the United Nations University, Tokyo,
from 18th to 20th January 2006 to formulate a
framework for cooperation and to identify focus areas to reduce
landslide risk worldwide. It was further
agreed that the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan would be implemented
within the scope of the Hyogo Framework
for Action 2005-2015, “Building the Resilience of Nations and
Communities to Disasters”, adopted at the
United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in 2005.
The Action Plan proposed the global cooperating network of the
IPL, and established the IPL Global
Promotion Committee and the IPL World Centre as its secretariat
to coordinate and support implementation
of the global cooperating fields of the IPL. The figure in the
next page presents the relationship of the IPL
Global Promotion Committee, the IPL World Centre, ICL member
organizations, and ICL supporting
organizations in relation to the IPL. IPL Global Promotion
Committee consists of ICL member
organizations, ICL supporting organizations, and supporting
governments. The IPL World Centre works as
the secretariat of IPL; it is hosted by UNESCO-KU-ICL UNITWIN
Headquarters in Kyoto University Uji
Campus, Uji, Kyoto, Japan.
The Action Plan also proposed a World Landslide Forum that shall
be convened every 3 years to bring
together academics, practitioners, politicians, et al., to a
global, multidisciplinary, problem-focused
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platform. During the World Landslide Forum, the IPL Global
Promotion Committee will identify World
Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction within
eligible organizations, such as universities,
institutes, NGOs, government ministries, and local governments,
contributing to “Risk Reduction for
Landslides and Related Earth System Disasters”.
To realize the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan, the ICL has exchanged
Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)
with UN/ISDR, UNU, WMO, WFEO, UNESCO, and ICSU in 2006 to
promote the 2006 Tokyo Action
Plan. A MoU is currently being established with FAO. The
establishment of these MoUs has created a
sound basis for the IPL as the global joint programme by the
ICL, UN organizations, and global NGOs,
such as ICSU and WFEO, with support from governments.
The Tokyo Action Plan outlined the global cooperation frame of
IPL. The MoUs exchanged between
ICL and UNESCO, WMO, UN/ISDR, UNU, ICSU, and WFEO guaranteed
their strong and continued
support. However, implementation of the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan
needs further examination; this will be
the task of the First Global Promotion Committee.
Thus, the objectives of the First IPL Global Promotion Committee
are to: 1) discuss and decide the term of references, and the
management of the IPL Global Promotion
Committee and IPL World Centre; 2) identify characteristics,
conditions and management of the IPL; 3) organize the First World
Landslide Forum in 2008; and 4) examine the procedure identifying
the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk
Reduction. At the opportunity of the first meeting the IPL
Global Promotion Committee, IPL Symposium on Landslide
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Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management and a Workshop
on Education for Sustainable
Development Regarding Landslide and Other Earth System Disaster
Reduction will also be organized.
Programme
22 (Monday) January 2007
15:00– 17:30 The preparatory discussion for the IPL Global
Promotion Committee and the
Organizing Committee of the First World Landslide Forum
Place: United Nations University, Committee Room 2+3 (5F)
23 (Tuesday) January
IPL Symposium 2007 (8:30-12:00)
Room: Elizabeth Rose Hall
Chairpersons: Nicola Casagli, Alexander Strom Yang Hong, Robert
F Adler, George J Huffman: Mapping global shallow-landslide
susceptibility Vit Vilímek J. Klimeš, M.L. Zapata, N. Santillán:
Influence of rapid glacial tongue retreat on surface
area of the Palcacocha Glacial Lake in the Cordillera Blanca,
Peru Yueping Yin, Xiaochun Li, Maosheng Zhang, Wamo Zheng, Hongqi
Chen: The detailed mapping
project on landslide in China Paolo Canuti, Nicola Casagli,
Giacomo Falorni, Massimiliano Nocentini: Geotechnical investigation
and dynamic modeling of the 30 April 2006 debirs flows on Ischia
Island Dugkeun Park, Jeong-Rim Oh, Junghun Park, Byung-Gon Chae:
Slope-stability related disasters and
regulatory countermeasures in the republic of Korea Fawu Wang,
Yeming Zhang, Kiminori Araiba, Zhitao Huo, Gonghui Wang, Xuanming
Peng, Kyoji
Sassa: Study on the mechanisms of landslides and slope
deformation caused by water level changes in the Three Gorges
Reservoir, China
Tatsuo Sekiguchi, Toshio Kitahara, Masuo Taguchi:
Geomorphological feature of the debris flow
disaster induced by the July 2006 heavy rainfall in Nagano
Prefecture, Japan Victor Carlotto, Peter Bobrowsky, Mel Best,
Martin Douma: An assessment of Geophysical methods
for landslide studies Nicola Casagli, Filippo Catani, Giacomo
Falorni, Paolo Farina, Gaia Righini: Rapid mapping
technologies for slope instability monitoring during the Merapi
Volcano crisis Carlos Eduardo Rodríguez Pineda: Earthquake-induced
landslides in Colombia David Huntley, Alejandra Duk-Rodkin: Terrain
geodatabase: application to landslide inventory and
hazard mapping in the Canadian North Ko-Fei Liu, Ying-Hsin Wu,
Ming-Chun Huang: Detecting groundwater level in shallow
unconfined
aquifer with microwaves for use in debris flow warning
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Wanmou Zheng, Yueping Yin, Xiaochun Li: The stability analysis
of Jiaju landslide in Danba, Sichuan, China
Nicola Casagli, Filippo Catani, Paolo Farina, Alessandro
Ferretti: Spatial and temporal
characterization of coastal instability through satellite InSAR:
The Ciro' Marina case (Italy) Byung-Gon Chae, Yong-Chan Cho,
Young-Suk Song, Dugkeun Park: Prediction of landslide
probability using a logistic regression model in Korea
12:00-12:30 Remarks: Salvano Briceno (Director of UN/ISDR) and
group photo of participants
Workshop on Education (14:00-17:00)
Workshop on Education for Sustainable Development regarding
Landslide and other earth system
disaster reduction
Room: Elizabeth Rose Hall, Hans van Ginkel (Rector of UNU):
Opening remark Badaoui Rouhban (UNESCO, Science Sector, Chief for
Disaster Reduction): Education Platform of
UN-ISDR -Disaster Education from primary school to university-
Kyoji Sassa: International Graduate Course/training course on
Landslides for sustainable development Srikantha Herath (Senior
Academic Programme Officer of the United Nations University): UNU
projects
related to education Ryu Fukui (Executive Director, Tokyo
Development Learning Center of World Bank): Role of World
Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Centre in learning/education
activities on disasters. Tadanori Suzuki (Team Leader, Japan
International Cooperation Agency): Earthquake Disaster
Reduction Programme for capacity building and Master’s degree of
JICA Rajib Shaw (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,
Kyoto University): Participatory Disaster
Education Process in Japan Alexander Strom (Institute of
Environmental Geospheres Dynamics, Russia): Landslide Summer
School
in Kyrgyzstan Josef Jurko (DPRI/KU, Slovakia): Participation to
the International School on "Landslide Risk
Assessment and Mitigation Landslide”, Summer School held in
Ravello, Italy. Experiences from foreign students and former
students who have studied in Japan: Ogbonnaya Igwe
(Nigeria), Zieaoddin Shoaei (Iran), Muhammad A. Wafid
(Indonesia), Hongjian Liao (China), Wang Fawu (China), and
others
Panel Discussion for international education
Chair persons: B. Rouhban and K. Sassa
Panelists: Speakers above and Wolfgang Eder (Germany) Ex-UNESCO
Director of Division of Earth
Science
Earl Brabb (President Emeritus, International Landslide Research
Group, USA), Ikuo Towhata (Prof.,
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo), Kazuo
Konagai (Prof. Institute of Industrial
Science, University of Tokyo)
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The First Session of IPL Global Promotion Committee
24 (Wednesday) January
9:30-12:00 Opening and Outline discussion
Room: Elizabeth Rose Hall
Opening address by WLF organizers and introduction of
participating organizations
Chairperson:
Kaoru Takara (ICL Executive Director, Vice Director of
DPRI/KU)
Koichi Abe (Director, Office of Disaster Reduction Research,
MEXT)
Hans van Ginkel (Rector of UNU, Honorary Chairperson of WLF)
Shuzo Nishimura (Executive Vice President of Kyoto University,
Honorary Chairperson of WLF)
Badaoui Rouhban (Chief, Section for Disaster Reduction of
UNESCO, Chairperson of WLF)
Thomas Hofer (Forestry Officer, Forestry Department of FAO)
Haris Srinivas (Chief of Urban Environmental Management of
UNEP)
Ryu Fukui (Manager, Tokyo Development Learning Center of the
World Bank)
Satoru Nishikawa (Director for Disaster Preparedness, Cabinet
Office of Japan)
Hideo Fukushima (Director, Global Environment Section, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs)
Shiro Ueno (Head of Forest Disaster Prevention and Restoration
Office, Forestry Agency, MAFF)
Haruo Nishimoto (Director for Volcanic Sabo and Debris Flow
Control, SABO Dept., MLIT)
Tatsuya Kimura (Deputy Head, International Affairs Office, Japan
Meteorological Agency)
Tadanori Suzuki (Team Director, Tsukuba International Center,
Japan International Cooperation
Agency, JICA)
Nordin Hasan (Director, ICSU Regional office for Asia &
Pacific)
See Sew Gue (World Federation of Engineering Organizations,
WFEO)
Ed de Mulder (Chairman of the managing team of the International
Year of Planet Earth, IYPE)
Alik Ismail-Zadeh (President, GeoRisk Commission of the
International Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics, IUGG)
Hiroshi Tanabe (Vice President, International Geographical
Union, IGU)
Hideaki Marui (President of the Japan Landslide Society)
Earl Brabb (President Emeritus, International Landslide Research
Group, USA),
Tadahiko Sakamoto (Chief Executive, the Public Works Research
Institute)
Takashi Inokuchi (Principal Researcher, the National Research
Institute for Earth Science and
Disaster Prevention, NIED)
Takaaki Shiratori (Principal Researcher, Asia Disaster Reduction
Center, ADRC)
Robert F. Adler (Goddard Space Flight Center, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration,
NASA)
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Yueping Yin (Director, Department of Environmental Geology,
China Geological Survey, China)
Peter Bobrowsky (Head, Section of Landslides and Geotechnics,
Geological Survey of Canada), others,
and
Paolo Canuti (European Centre of ICL, Vice President of ICL)
from ICL
Overview of 2006 Round Table Discussion and 1st WLF
Kyoji Sassa
Discussion on the expected output of this meeting
13:30-17:00 Management of IPL and the Global Promotion
Committee
Room: Elizabeth Rose Hall
Overview of IPL (2002-2006) activities by Sassa
Management of IPL Global Promotion Committee and IPL World
Centre
Funding and management system of the Committee
IPL projects: IPL types, Proposal system, Evaluation System, and
Promotion system
25 (Thursday) January
9:00-17:00 Organization of the first World Landslide Forum
Room: Elizabeth Rose Hall
Explanation of the plan of the World Landslide Forum
1. Discussion on each item.
1) General structure including the satellite symposium
2) Finance of the forum (Funding & logistic)
3) Parallel Session organization (30- 40 sessions)
Possible session titles: 8-10 planned sessions and 20-30
sessions in application.
4) Schedule for preparation of WLF and Pre-Forum in November
2007
5) Identification of World Centre of Excellence, candidates, and
recommendation process, and its
Panel
6) Cooperation with other initiatives: International Year of
Planet Earth (IYPE: 2007-2009),
Global/Regional Disaster Reduction Research Forum (ISDR-World
Bank) in 2008, and others.
7) Activity Plan for further actions
8) Discussion and decision of the concluding document of the
meeting
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* The International Symposium on Landslide Risk Analysis and
Sustainable Disaster Management is
supported by “International Scientific Meetings in Japan”
Programme of the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science.
* The Workshop on Education for Sustainable Development and the
committee meeting are organized as
one of the "Scholars and Professional Invitation Project” within
the framework of the “2006/07 ACCU
Invitation Programme for International Educational Exchange of
Teachers and Professionals”.
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3. MoU between ICL and Global Stakeholders to Promote the 2006
Tokyo Action Plan
ICL has exchanged the Memorandum of Understanding to promote the
2006 Tokyo Action Plan with
global stakeholders related to landslides. The United Nations
Secretariat for International Strategy for
UN/ISDR and UNU already exchanged the MoUs as introduced in ICL
Newsletter No.8, and WMO,
WFEO and UNESCO already exchanged the MoUs as introduced in ICL
Newsletter No.9. After that, MoU
was exchanged between the International Council for Science
(ICSU) and ICL.
MoU between ICSU and ICL To promote implementation of the 2006
Tokyo Action Plan, the International Council for Science (ICSU)
and the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) exchanged
the Memorandum of Understanding
concerning Strengthening Cooperation in Research and Learning on
Earth System Risk Analysis and
Sustainable Disaster Management within the Framework of the
United Nations International Strategy For
Disaster Reduction – as Regards “Landslides”.
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ICSU-ICL MoU Document
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4. Nomination Citation for the Best Paper Award, Landslides,
Volume 3, 2004
The award for Best Paper for Landslides, Volume 3, 2007, goes to
Farrokh Nadim, Oddvar
Kjekstad, Pascal Peduzzi, Christian Herold, and Christian
Jaedicke of the Norwegian Geotechnical
Institute and UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe for their excellent paper,
“Global landslide and avalanche
hotspots” (Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 159-173). This paper presents an
excellent summary of landslide and snow
avalanche hazards in critical areas worldwide.
Landslides and snow avalanches cause major disasters on a global
scale every year. In this paper,
the probability of landslide and avalanche occurrence was
estimated by modeling the physical processes
and combining the results with statistics based on prior
experience. The paper presents global hazard and
risk maps for landslides and avalanches that were developed to
identify the most exposed countries. For
estimation of risk, the computations were based on human losses
as recorded in various
natural-disaster-impact databases. Based on global datasets of
climate, lithology, earthquake activity, and
topography, areas with the highest hazard were identified. The
results from the landslide and avalanche
hazard model together with global population data provided input
for risk assessment. Regions with the
highest risk were found in Colombia, Tajikistan, India, and
Nepal where the estimated people killed per
year per 100 km2 was found to be greater than one.
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5.The First World Landslide Forum
Bulletin No.1 (2007.5.29)
The First World Landslide Forum
Implementing the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International
Programme on Landslides (IPL)
-Strengthening Research and Learning on Earth System Risk
Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management within UN-ISDR as
Regards “Landslides”-
Date: 18-21 November 2008 Venue: United Nations University,
Tokyo, Japan
Organizers International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) *,
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
(UN/ISDR), United Nations University (UNU), United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank (IBRD), United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), International Council for Science
(ICSU), World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), Kyoto
University (KU), Japan Landslide Society (JLS) (* The present list
of members is attached in the last page) Cosponsors (TENTATIVE)
Cabinet office of Japan (CAO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
(MOFA), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology, Japan (MEXT), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries of Japan (MAFF), Ministry of Land Infrastructure and
Transport, Japan (MLIT), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Science Council of Japan
(SCJ), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, Italian Civil Protection
Department (Presidency of the Council of Ministers), National
Emergency Management Agency of Korea (NEMA), Ministry of
Environment of the Slovak Republic, Ministry of Environment of the
Czech Republic, International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS),
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), International
Geographical Union (IGU), Academy of Forest, Wood and Environment,
Japan (AFWE).
International Organizing Committee Honorary Chairpersons
Salvano BRICENO (Director of UN/ISDR) Jacques DIOUF
(Director-General of FAO) Hans van GINKEL (Rector of UNU) Michel
JARRAUD (Secretary-General of WMO) Koïchiro MATSUURA
(Director-General of UNESCO) Goverdhan MEHTA (President of ICSU)
Shuzo NISHIMURA (Executive Vice President of Kyoto University)
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Chairpersons
Edward BROMHEAD (University of London, Kings College London)
Paolo CANUTI (European Centre of ICL, University of Florence)
Srikantha HERATH (Senior Academic Programme Officer of UNU)
Yoshiaki KAWATA (Director of Disaster Prevention Research Institute
of Kyoto University) Howard MOORE (Senior Advisor of ICSU) Badaoui
ROUHBAN (Chief, Section for Disaster Reduction of UNESCO) Kyoji
SASSA (President of ICL, IPL World Centre) * Robert SCHUSTER (U.S.
Geological Survey)
(* Representative Chairperson) Members
Robert F. ADLER (Senior Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center
of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA)
Peter BOBROWSKY (Secretary General, International Union of
Geological Sciences (IUGS), Canada)
Earl BRABB (President Emeritus, International Landslide Research
Group, USA) Ryu FUKUI (Manager, Tokyo Development Learning Center
of the World Bank) See Sew GUE (World Federation of Engineering
Organizations (WFEO), Institution of
Engineers, Malaysia) Thomas HOFER (Forestry Officer, Specialist
on watershed management and mountain
development, Forestry Department of FAO, Italy) Alik
ISMAIL-ZADEH (Chair, Commission on Geophysical Risk and
Sustainability of
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG),
Germany/Russia) Saroj Kumar JHA (Team Leader, Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery the World
Bank Group, USA) Suzanne LACASSE (Managing Director, Norwegian
Geotechnical Institute (NGI)) Willy LACERDA (Chair, Joint Technical
Committee 1- Landslides and Engineered Slopes,
Brazil) Peter LYTTLE (Coordinator, Landslide Hazard Programme of
U.S. Geological Survey) Hideaki MARUI (President, Japan Landslide
Society) Gordon MACBEAN (Chair, ICSU Planning Committee on Natural
and Human-Induced
Environmental Hazards and Disasters, Canada) Norio OKADA, N.
(President, Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science) Nuria SANZ
(Programme Specialist, World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, France)
Hari SRINIVAS (Chief, Urban Environmental Management of UNEP,
Japan) Hiroshi TANABE (Vice President, International Geographical
Union (IGU), Japan) Avinash TYAGI (Director, Hydrology and Water
Resources Department of WMO, Switzerland) Yueping YIN (Director,
Department of Environmental Geology, Chinese Geological Survey,
China)
Local Organizing Committee Executive Subcommittee Chairperson:
Kaoru TAKARA (Executive Director of ICL, Deputy Director of
DPRI/KU) Deputy Chairpersons:
Libor JANSKY (Senior Academic Programme Officer of UNU)
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Hirotaka OCHIAI (Vice President of the Japan Landslide Society)
Members
Masahiro CHIGIRA (Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University) Daisuke
HIGAKI (Chair, Planning Section of the Japan Landslide Society)
Toshitaka KAMAI (Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University) Kazuo KONAGAI
(Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo)
Toyohiko MIYAGI (Chair, International Affairs of the Japan
Landslide Society) Hiromu MORIWAKI (Director, Strategic Planning
Department of the National Research
Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention) Roy SIDLE
(Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University) Rajib SHAW (Associate
Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies,
Kyoto
University) Koji SUZUKI (Executive Director, Asia Disaster
Reduction Center) Yasuto TACHIKAWA (Executive Director of the Japan
Society for Natural Disaster Science) Kuniyoshi TAKEUCHI (Director,
International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management,
Public Works Research Institute) Ikuo TOWHATA (Professor,
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tokyo) Ryousuke TUNAKI
(Executive Director of the Japan Landslide Society) Ryuichi YATABE
(Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime
University)
Advisory Subcommittee Advisors
Koichi ABE (Director, Office for Disaster Reduction Research,
MEXT) Yasuhiro HAMURA (Director, Global Environment Section,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Tatsuya KIMURA (Deputy Head,
International Affairs Office, Japan Meteorological Agency) Satoru
NISHIKAWA (Director of Disaster Preparedness, Cabinet Office) Haruo
NISHIMOTO (Director for Volcanic Sabo and Debris Flow Control, SABO
Dept., MLIT) Shokichi SAKATA (Group Director for Water Resources
and Disaster Management, Japan
International Cooperation Agency) Shiro UENO (Head of Forest
Disaster Prevention and Restoration Office, Forestry Agency,
MAFF) Scientific Advisors:
Hiroyuki KAMEDA (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University and
Visiting Researcher, NIED) Masashi KAMON (Dean, Graduate School of
Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University) Yoshimitsu OKADA
(President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and
Disaster
Prevention) Tadahiko SAKAMOTO, T. (Chief Executive, Public Works
Research Institute) Asahiko TAIRA (Science Council of Japan, SCJ),
Tamotsu TAKAHASHI (Association for Disaster Prevention Research)
Kenzo TOKI (Director, Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of
Urban Cultural Heritage of
the Ritsumeikan University)
Secretariat: Hiroshi FUKUOKA (Secretary General, Treasurer of
ICL, Associate Professor of DPRI/KU) Fawu WANG (Assistant to the
President of ICL, Assistant Professor of DPRI/KU) Gonghui WANG
(Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of ICL Journal “Landslides”,
Assistant
Professor of DPRI/KU)) Tadashi NAKASHIMA (Lecturer, Field
Science Education and Research Center of Kyoto
University) Kenichiro KOBAYASHI (Assistant Professor, Institute
of Sustainability Science, Kyoto
University) Mie UEDA (Secretary, International Consortium on
Landslides)
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Background and Objectives of the First World Landslide Forum
In January 2006, the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International
Programme on Landslides (IPL) was adopted by the international
community. It proposed the global cooperating Network of the
IPL,
and established the IPL Global Promotion Committee and the IPL
World Centre as its secretariat to coordinate and support
implementation of the International Programme on Landslides. The
relationship of IPL Global Promotion Committee, the IPL World
Centre, ICL member organizations, and ICL supporting organizations
is shown below.
The adoption of the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan took place on the
occasion of the 2006 Tokyo Round
Table Discussion “Strengthening Research and Learning on Earth
System Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management within
UN-ISDR as Regards Landslides”-towards a dynamic global network of
the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) which was held at
the United Nations University, Tokyo, from 18th to 20th January,
2006, to formulate a framework for cooperation and to identify
focus areas to reduce landslide risk worldwide. It was further
agreed that the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan would be implemented within
the scope of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, “Building
the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters”, adopted at
the United Nations
World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Hyogo,
Japan in 2005. The Action Plan proposed organizing a World
Landslide Forum in order to bring together academics,
practitioners, politicians, and other stakeholders to a global,
multidisciplinary, problem-focused platform. This bulletin
describes the organization of the First Landslides Forum that will
take place at United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan from 18-21
November 2008.
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The objectives of the First Landslides Forum (1st WLF) are the
following:
1. Promotion of research and exchange of experience through open
Forums, Symposia and
Workshops
Various meetings to strengthen Research and Learning on Earth
System Risk Analysis and Sustainable Disaster Management within
UN-ISDR as Regards “Landslides” will be organized by all levels of
participating groups. Rooms and time span will be allocated to
promote those activities.
2. Advances and achievements of IPL
Proposals and reports on IPL projects will be presented for the
planned global cooperating fields, which are listed hereafter:
Global Cooperating Fields of IPL
(1) Technology Development A. Monitoring and Early Warning B.
Hazard Mapping, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
(2) Targeted Landslides: Mechanisms and Impacts A. Catastrophic
Landslides B. Landslides Threatening Heritage Sites
(3) Capacity Building A. Enhancing Human and Institutional
Capacities B. Collating and Disseminating Information/
Knowledge
(4) Mitigation, Preparedness and Recovery A. Preparedness B.
Mitigation C. Recovery
3. Designation of World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk
Reduction
The IPL Global Promotion Committee will identify and promote
World Centres of Excellence (WCoE) within eligible organizations,
such as universities, institutes, NGOs, government ministries and
local governments, contributing to “Risk Reduction for Landslides
and Related Earth System Disasters”. Linkages to CoE at the
national level will be used to promote cooperation with the ICL and
dissemination of knowledge and information. An independent Panel of
Experts, set up by the Global Promotion Committee of IPL, may be
appointed to endorse the CoEs. The first WCoE will be approved by
the IPL Global Promotion Committee based on the recommendation by
the Panel of Experts and announced at the final day of the first
World Landslide Forum.
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Programme of the First World Landslide Forum 11-15 November
(Satellite Conference)
“International Conference on Management of Landslide Hazard in
Asian Pacific Region”
Organizers: The Japan Landslide Society, and others
Conference in Sendai-city and three days field trip in the
Tohoku District
17 November (Monday) Evening Pre-Forum in Japanese (Free of
charge) (under examination)
“Protection of society and cultural and natural heritage from
landslides” or
“Promotion of research and leaning for landslide risk reduction”
or others
18 November (Tuesday)
9:00-10:00 Opening Addresses from Organizers and Sponsors
10:00-12:00 Open Forum “Progress of IPL activities”
12:00-14:00 Exhibition
Landslide new technologies & case studies
14:00 - 17:00 Plenary Symposium “Global Landslide Risk
Reduction”
18:30-21:00 Reception
19 November (Wednesday)
8:30-10:30 Plenary Session 1
Keynote speeches/ Keynote lectures, and Thematic
Presentations
11:00-12:30 Parallel Activities 1
Thematic sessions, et al.
12:30-14:00 Exhibition
Landslide new technologies & case studies
14:00- 18:30 Parallel Activities 2
Workshops, Open Forum, Topical Symposia, Technical Sessions, and
IPL Global
Promotion Committee
Evening Working Group Meetings
20 November (Thursday)
8:30-10:30 Plenary Session 2
Keynote speeches/ Keynote lectures, and Thematic
Presentations
11:00-12:30 Parallel Activities 3
Thematic sessions, et al.
12:30-14:00 Exhibition
Landslide new technologies & case studies
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14:00- 18:30 Parallel Activities 4
Workshops, Open Forum, Topical Symposia Technical Sessions, and
IPL Global
Promotion Committee
Evening Working Group Meetings
21 November (Friday) 8:30-10:30 Plenary Session 3
Keynote speeches/ Keynote lectures, and Thematic
Presentations
11:00-12:30 Panel Discussion
Toward WLF-II in 2011
12:30-14:00 Exhibition
Landslide new technologies & case studies
14:00- 16:00 Parallel Activities 3
Thematic Sessions and Committee meetings.
16:30-18:30 Closing Session
Presentation of New IPL Projects
Adoption of output document
Nomination of WCoE
Conferment of ICL Awards (Varnes Medal, Best Paper Award, IPL
Award of Success
19:30- Post-Conference Dinner (outside of UNU)
The First World Landslide Forum 18 November
(Tue)
19 November (Wed) 20 November (Thurs) 21 November
(Fri)
AM Opening Session
Open Forum
Progress of IPL
activities
Plenary Session 1
Keynote speeches/
keynote lectures
Parallel Activities 1
Thematic sessions, et al.
Plenary Session 2
Keynote speeches/
keynote lectures
Parallel Activities 3
Thematic sessions,
et al.
Plenary Session 3
Keynote speeches/
keynote lectures
Panel Discussion
toward WLF-II in 2011
Lunch Exhibition
New technologies
& case studies
Exhibition
New technologies &
case studies
Exhibition
New technologies
& case studies
Exhibition
New technologies & case
studies
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PM Plenary
Symposium:
Global Landslide
Risk Reduction
Parallel Activities 2
* Workshops
Open Forum
Topical Symposia
Technical Sessions
* IPL Global Promotion
Committee 1
Parallel Activities 4
* Workshops
Open Forum
Topical Symposia
Technical Sessions
* IPL Global
Promotion Committee
2
Parallel Activities 5
Thematic Sessions,
Committee meetings
Closing Session
Presentation of New IPL
Projects, Adoption of
output document,
Conferment of WCoE
and ICL Awards
Eve-
ning
Welcome
Reception
Working Group
Meetings
Working Group
Meetings
Post-Conference Dinner
(Outside of UNU)
Secretariat of the First World Landslide Forum
IPL World Centre
UNESCO-Kyoto University-ICL UNITWIN Headquarter Building Uji,
Kyoto 611-0011, Japan E-mail: [email protected], Web:
iclhq.org
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International Consortium on Landslides An international
non-government and non-profit scientific organization
promoting landslide research and capacity building for the
benefit of society and the environment President: Kyoji Sassa
(Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Vice Presidents: Peter Bobrowsky (Geological Survey of Canada) /
Paolo Canuti (University of Firenze, Italy) Oddvar Kjekstad
(International Centre for Geohazards, Norway) / Peter Lyttle (U. S.
Geological Survey, USA)
ICL Supporting Organizations: The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) / The World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) / The Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) / The United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UN/ISDR)
/ The United Nations University (UNU) / International Council for
Science (ICSU) /World Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WFEO) / International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) /
Governments of Japan, USA, Italy, Canada, Norway, Korea, Czech
Republic, and Slovakia.
ICL Members: Geological Survey of Canada / Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment /
Jilin University, Environmental Geological Disaster Research
Institute, China / Xian Municipal Government, Lishan Landslide
Prevention and Control Office, China / Northeast Forestry
University, China / Xi’an Jiaotong University, Department of Civil
Engineering, China / China Three Gorges University, Institute of
Geological Hazard Mitigation / China Geological Survey /
Universidad Nacional de Columbia, Columbia / Charles University,
Faculty of Science, Czech Republic / Technische Universitat
Darmstadt, Institute and Laboratory of Geotechnics, Germany /
Mekelle University, Ethiopia / Building & Housing Research
Center, Iran / International Institute of Earthquake Engineering
and Seismology (IIEES), Iran / Soil Conservation and Watershed
Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Iran / ENEA (Italian Agency
for New Technologies Energy and Environment), Italy / European
Commission’s Joint Research Centre, IPSC/HSU, Italy / Instituto
Nationale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Italy
/ University of Firenze, Earth Sciences Department, Italy / Center
of Geological Environment, Geological Agency of Indonesia/ Ehime
University, Faculty of Engineering, Japan / Forestry and Forest
Product Research Institute, Japan / Geographical Survey Institute,
Japan / Japan Landslide Society / Kyoto University, Disaster
Prevention Research Institute, Research Section for Innovative
Disaster Prevention Technology and Policy, Japan / Kyoto
University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Research Centre
on Landslides, Japan / Niigata University, Research Center for
Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Japan / University of Tokyo,
Department of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering Group,
Japan / University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Japan
/ Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) /
Mara University of Technology, Malaysia / International Centre for
Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal / International
Centre for Geohazards (ICG) in Oslo, Norway / Instituto Geologico
Minero y Metalurgico (INGEMMET), Peru / Grudec Ayar, Peru /
Proexrom S.R.L. Technical University, Civil Engineering Faculty,
Romania / Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise Scientific
Centre HydGeo, Russia / Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Environmental Geoscience (IEG RAS) / Russian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of the Geospheres Dynamics / Unified Energy System of
Russia, Open Joint-Stock Company Engineering Centre / Comenius
University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Engineering
Geology, Slovakia / Swedish Geotechnical Institute / Swiss Federal
Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) / Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives, Land Development Department, Thailand
/ U.S. Geological Survey, USA / National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for
Atmospheres, USA/Institute Hydroingeo, State Committee of Geology
of Uzbekistan
ICL Supporters: Marui & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan / Eight
Consultants Co., Ltd., Okayama, Japan / Geo-Research Institute,
Osaka, Japan / GODAI Development Corp., Kanazawa, Japan / Japan
Conservation Engineering & Co., Ltd., Tokyo / Kokusai Kogyo
Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan / Kowa Co., Ltd., Niigata, Japan / MEISAI
Co., Suita, Japan / Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan / Ohta
Geo-Research Co., Ltd., Nishinomiya, Japan / OSASI Technos Inc.,
Kochi, Japan / OYO Corporation, Tokyo, Japan / Research Center of
Computational Mechanics, Inc., Tokyo, Japan / Sabo Technical
Center, Tokyo, Japan / Sakata Denki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Contact: UNITWIN Headquarter Building Kyoto University Uji
Campus, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan E-mail: [email protected],
Web: iclhq.org, Tel: +81-774-38-4834, Fax: +81-774-38-4019
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6. Publication of IPL Leaflet and a book “Progress in Landslide
Science”
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7. List of ICL members as of 1 May 2007
List of ICL Member Organizations
2007 Members 1. Geological Survey of Canada, Peter BOBROWSKY/
Baolin WANG
2. Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Institute and Laboratory of
Geotechnics, Germany, Rolf
KATZENBACH/ Gregor BACHMANN
3. ENEA (Italian Agency for New Technologies Energy and
Environment), Italy, Claudio
MARGOTTINI / Guiseppe DELMONACO
4. European Commission's Joint Research Centre, IPSC/HSU, Italy,
Alois SIEBER / Dario TARCHI
5. Instituto Nationale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica
Sperimentale - OGS, Italy, Daniel Nieto YABAR /
Emanuele LODOLO
6. University of Firenze, Earth Sciences Department, Italy,
Paolo CANUTI / Nicola CASAGLI
7. Ehime University, Faculty of Engineering, Japan, Ryuichi
YATABE / Netra P. BHANDARY
8. Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute, Japan,
Motoaki OKUMA / Hirotaka OCHIAI
9. Geographical Survey Institute, Japan, Toshio KITAHARA /
Tatsuo SEKIGUCHI
10. Japan Landslide Society, Japan, Hideaki MARUI / Toyohiko
MIYAGI
11. Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute,
Research Centre on Landslides, Japan,
Kyoji SASSA / Hiroshi FUKUOKA
12. Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute,
Flood Section, Japan, Kaoru TAKARA /
Roy SIDLE
13. Niigata University, Research Institute for Hazards in Snowy
Areas, Japan, Hideaki MARUI / Naoki
WATANABE
14. University of Tokyo, Department of Civil Engineering,
Geotechnical Engineering Group, Japan, Ikuo
TOWHATA / Taro UCHIMURA
15. University of Tokyo, Inst. Industrial Science, Japan, Kazuo
KONAGAI
16. Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM),
Korea, Won-Young
KIM/Byung-Gon CHAE
17. International Centre for Geohazards (ICG) in Oslo, Norway,
Oddvar KJEKSTAD / Farrokh NADIM
18. Swedish Geotechnical Institute, Sweden, Karin RANKKA / Bo
BERGGREN
19. Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF,
Switzerland, Walter AMMANN /
Oliver KORUP
20. U.S. Geological Survey, USA, Peter T. LYTTLE / Paula
GORI
21. Laboratory for Atmospheres, Goddard Space Flight Center,
National Aeronautics and Space
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Administration (NASA), USA, Robert F. ADLER
22. Institute of Hazard Mitigation, China Three Gorges
University, China, Xianqi LUO
23. China Geological Survey, China, Yueping YIN, Zuochen
ZHANG
24. Charles University, Research Center of Earth Dynamic, Czech
Republic, Vit VILIMEK / Jiri
ZVELEBIL
25. Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise Scientific
Centre "HydGeo", Russia, Oleg ZERKAL /
Julia V. FROLOVA
26. Institute of the Geospheres Dynamics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia, Alexander STROM /
Nikolai SYRNIKOV
27. Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department
of Engineering Geology, Slovakia,
Rudolf HOLZER / Ján VLČKO
28. Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,
Peng CUI / Tianchi LI
29. Jilin University, Environmental Geological Disaster Research
Institute, China, NIE Lei / Fawu Wang
30. Xian Jiaotong University, Department of Civil Engineering,
Geotechnical Engineering Group, China,
Hong-jian LIAO
31. Lishan Landslide Prevention and Control Office, Xian
Municipal Government, China, Wang YANG /
Yongjin TIAN
32. Northeast Forestry University, China, Wei SHAN
33. Universidad Nacional de Columbia, Columbia, Carlos Eduardo
RODRIGUEZ / Gonzalez GARCIA
34. Mekelle University, Ethiopia, Nata TADESSE
35. Geological Agency, M.E.M.R., Indonesia, Banbang DWIYANTO /
Ahmad Djumarma
WIRAKUSUMAH
36. Building & Housing Research Center, Iran, S.H.
TABATABAEI / M.H. Tofigh RAYHANI
37. International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and
Seismology (IIEES), Iran, Mohammadreza
MAHDAVIFAR / Ebrahim HAGHSHENAS
38. Department of International Scientific and Research Affairs,
Agricultural Research and Education
Organization (AREO), Iran, Zieaoddin SHOAEI
39. Mara University of Technology, Malaysia, Roslan Zainal
ABIDIN / Yusof ABD. RAHMAN
40. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), Nepal, Madhav KARKI / Xu
JIANCHU, Mandira SHERESTAH
41. Grudec Ayar, Peru, Raul CARRENO
42. Instituto Geologico Minero y Metalurgico (INGEMMET), Peru,
Vicotor LAY / Antonio GUZMAN
43. Proexrom S.R.L. Technical University, Civil Engineering
Faculty, Romania, Nicolae BOTU / Dan
CARASTOIAN
44. Institute of Environmental Geoscience (IEG RAS), Russian
Academy of Sciences, Russia, Victor
OSIPOV / Svalova VALENTINA
45. Open Joint-Stock Company Engineering Centre, Unified Energy
System of Russia, Alexander
PIOTROVSKIY
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46. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Land Development
Department, Thailand, Chumpol
LILITTHAM/ Aniruth POTICHAN
47. Institute Hydroingeo, State Committee of Geology of
Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, NIYAZOV R.A./
BAZAROV Sh. B.
(Blue means new members after 5th BOR/ICL in UNESCO.)
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8. Information of ICL Meetings
Place and Date Title of symposium / Contact address Organizer,
Cosponsors
2007 STC Meeting of ICL Vail, Colorado, USA 2 June 2007
E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL
First North American Landslide Conference - Landslides and
Society: Integrated Science, Engineering, Management, and
Mitigation
Vail, Colorado, USA 3 – 8 June 2007
E-mail: [email protected] (Keith Turner, Chairman)
http://www.mines.edu/academic/geology/landslidevail2007/
Association of Environmental and
Engineering Geologists, Geo-Institute
of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, American Rock
Mechanics Association (ARMA),
Canadian Geotechnical Society,
IAEG, ISRM, ISSMGE, TRB
ICL International Summer School on Rockslides and
Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley
(Kyrgyzstan)
Kokomeren
River Valley,
Kyrgyzstan
6 June – 6 July
2007
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL, Institute of Geospheres
Dynamics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Institute of Seismology,
National Academy of Science,
Kyrgyzstan
The China-Japan-Korea Field Trip on Landslides, 2007 Three
Gorges
area, China
13-17 July
2007
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL, China Geological Survey, Japan
Landslide Society, Korea Institute of
Geoscience and Mineral Resources
(KIGAM)
Sixth Session of Board of Representatives (6th BOR/ICL)
14-16 Nov.
2007 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL
The Second IPL Global Promotion Committee
United Nations University 21-23 January
2008
E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL,UNESCO,WMO,FAO,UN/ISDR,
UNU, UNEP, IBRD, UNDP, ICSU,
WFEO, KU, JLS
The 1st 2008 Steering Committee
UN/ISDR Spring 2008
E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL
10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes
(10th ICL)
Xian, China 30 July – 4 July
2008 http://www.landslide.iwhr.com/
Chinese Inst. of Soil Mech. & Geotechnical Engr., CCES,
Chinese National Commission on Engr. Geology, Chinese Soc. of
Rock
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Mechanics & Engr., ISSMGE, ISRM and IAEG. Cosponsored by
ICL
Topical Symposium on Landslide Risk Reduction, under the Section
of “Geohazards” in 33rd International Geological Congress
Oslo, Norway 5-14 August
2008 http://www.33igc.org/
ICL, IUGS, UNESCO, IYPE, ICG
12th International Conference and Field Workshop on
Landslides (12th ICFL)
Switzerland September 2008
ILRG
Joint Symposium and Field Trip on Landslide Disaster Mitigation
in Northeastern Japan
Northeastern Japan 11-15
November 2008
http://www.landslide-soc.org/
Japan Landslide Society and ICL
The First World Landslide Forum UNU, Tokyo 18-21 Nov.
2008 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://iclhq.org
ICL,UNESCO,WMO,FAO,UN/ISDR,
UNU, UNEP, IBRD, UNDP, ICSU,
WFEO, KU, JLS
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9. Recent Landslide Occurrence News
Information of recent major landslide disasters which took place
from 28 September 2006 to 25 May 2007
and appeared in the Internet news sites of the world are
compiled and listed below. This list is updated in
the “Recent Landslides” page of ICL web
http://icl.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/Landslides%20Alert.htm.
North America
22 May 2007 - USA - Landslide threatens another home
Foster's children and grandchildren, joined by community
volunteers, hurriedly moved a lifetime's
worth of belongings Monday as a fast-moving landslide migrated
to within 20 yards of her triple-wide
manufactured home.
21 May 2007 - Canada - Landslide in Terrebonne
A landslide this morning on the Banks of the Mille-Isle-River in
Terrebonne.
18 May 2007 - Canada - High slide risk for 9 North Van
homeowners
A new geotechnical report has concluded 27 North Vancouver homes
were built on an unstable slope,
and that nine of them are at very high or extreme risk from
landslides.
14 May 2007 - USA - Cities fighting a losing battle against
landslides
Plagued by landslides that continue to damage homes from the
1970s and '80s, Layton and Provo
have learned to be skeptical - and demanding - when developers
ask to build on hills and bluffs.
12 May 2007 - USA - Landslide-threatened home burned
The Piper Road home, on a bluff overlooking Rock Creek, had
already been issued a death sentence.
The slow-moving landslide consumed pieces of the hill under
their 2-acre site, and it was only a
matter of time until Bill and Annette LaCombe would see their
abandoned home and nearby garage
tumble into the canyon.
12 May 2007 - USA - Wal-Mart plans push to halt Kilbuck
slide
A Wal-Mart construction crew soon will be working around the
clock to divert water away from the
still-moving landslide area where it had planned to build a new
store along Route 65 in Kilbuck.
26 April 2007 - USA - Landslide blocks residents’ return
(NorthJersey.com)
24 April 2007 - USA - Heavy rain prompts landslide on I-29 in
western Iowa
Mud and trees roared down upon Interstate 29 today in Sioux City
as heavy rain triggered a landslide.
20 April 2007 - USA - Landslide destroys local home
Ermel Ratliff, 77, and his wife, Gayle, 73, were asleep at about
1:30 a.m. Monday when a large tree
and tons of mud and debris rocked their house 30 feet off its
foundation.
20 April 2007 - Canada - House, N.L. highway victims of
landslide
An unoccupied bungalow cracked in half and tumbled over an
oceanside cliff Wednesday as this
small Newfoundland town was hit by another in a series of
landslides.
16 April 2007 - USA - Oregon town watching landslide
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The town of Astoria, Ore., is keeping a constant watch on a
stretch of land that has been sliding
downhill at a rate of about an inch a day since last
January.
16 April 2007 - Canada - Landslide in western Newfoundland town
the second in six months
A big chunk of land on the edge of this small community in
western Newfoundland slid into the
ocean on the weekend.
16 April 2007 - USA - Beechwood landslide menaces homes
The partial collapse of a Greenfield cliff damaged two row
houses on Beechwood Boulevard on
Sunday morning. The landslide uprooted several large trees that
crashed against the residences below.
15 April 2007 - USA - Landslide Pummels Neighborhood, Again
A landslide pummeled the Greenfield neighborhood Sunday, sending
mud, debris, and even a tree
crashing down a hill.
14 April 2007 - Canada - Haute-Rivière section closed by
landslide
The City of Chateauguay is undertaking important repairs on
Haute-Rivière road which will
necessitate a complete closure of the thoroughfare between the
civic addresses of 547 and 566 for a
few months.
13 April 2007 - USA - Slow-Moving Landslide Causing Massive
Problems On Local Streets
Last week, tons of trees, muck and mud tumbled onto homes on
Beechwood Boulevard in Greenfield,
forcing homeowners to flee.
12 April 2007 - USA - Slippery situation near Eddyville:
Contractor says landslide potential was
unforeseeable; ODOT disagrees
To stabilize 11 potential landslide areas in the hills, about
450 concrete “pins” — which are 4 feet in
diameter and 40 feet long — will be put into the ground.
10 April 2007 - Hawaii - Rockslide brings Community together
(starbulletin.com)
04 April 2007 - USA - Landslide Knocks Out Power In Squirrel
Hill
About three dozen neighbors in Squirrel Hill were in the dark
after a landslide overnight.
30 March 2007 - USA - Giant landslide puzzles Astoria
For 53 years the hillside above Astoria has held, creeping only
enough to cause a bumpy road. But
heavy winter rain apparently proved to be too much. In January,
the historic slide area began to move
again.
30 March 2007 - USA - Rain threatens to reawaken Hwy. 26
landslide
With rain in the forecast, transportation crews said they were
unsure what could happen next to the
exposed hillside that sent dirt and trees crashing onto Highway
26, just west of downtown Portland
earlier this week.
30 March 2007 - USA - Landslide closes road to Mount St. Helens
visitor centers
A landslide that has cut off access to two Mount St. Helens
visitor centers and a few homes won't be
cleared until the end of this week at the earliest, ...
29 March 2007 - USA - Threat of landslide shuts state Route
416
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NEW PHILADELPHIA State Route 416 was closed Wednesday just north
of New Philadelphia’s
corporation limit and will remain closed indefinitely as a
precautionary measure because of a
landslide that reduced traffic to one lane a week ago.
28 March 2007 - Canada - Rain brings landslide to Stanley
Park
STREATOR: Receding rainwater causes landslide 2 businesses
evacuated, closed along river
28 March 2007 - Canada - Rain brings landslide to Stanley
Park
The latest rainstorm to soak B.C.'s south coast has led to
another major landslide in Vancouver's
Stanley Park.
28 March 2007 - Canada - Homes razed after landslide
A Mission home was demolished yesterday after a massive
landslide left it perched on the edge of a
deep ravine.
26 March 2007 - USA - Landslide closes Spirit Lake Highway
A large landslide is blocking the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway
near Kid Valley, 19 miles east of
Interstate 5.
26 March 2007 - Canada - Risk of landslide when building homes
into hillsides
While everybody likes a view and just about everyone still
dreams of life in a detached home,
building homes into hillsides comes with a cost with weather
like ours.
25 March 2007 - USA - Mudslide in Maple Ridge blocks train (News
1130)
22 March 2007 - USA - Route into Pittsburgh closed by landslide
(NEPA News)
08 March 2007 - USA - Crockett Landslide Disrupts Amtrak
Service
A rock slide that dumped debris on a major rail corridor
Thursday delayed passenger and freight
trains between the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento, but
caused no injuries.
06 March 2007 - USA - Landslide Growing In Woodbridge
Neighborhood
During the past few days, the earth has moved in the Newport
Estates area of Woodbridge. A
landslide started slowly and swallowed trees in its path.
06 March 2007 - USA - New Hazards Discovered In S.F.
Landslide
The Telegraph Hill landslide is a bigger mess than engineers
first thought. The hill is still very
unstable -- and it may be a while before home and business
owners can get back in
27 February 2007 - USA - San Francisco hit by landslide
Safety officials in San Francisco Tuesday were examining a huge
landslide that threatens four
buildings including a 45-unit apartment complex and a strip
club.
25 February 2007 - USA - Small landslide blocks part of a NW
Portland street
A mudslide behind a Northwest Portland home Saturday afternoon
ripped out the home's deck and
exposed a portion of its foundation and several concrete
footings.
24 February 2007 - USA - Assessing methane release from
submarine landslide
Undersea landslides may play a role in releasing the potent
greenhouse gas methane into the ocean
and atmosphere.
23 February 2007 - USA - Broken pipe cuts coast's gas
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A landslide broke a stretch of natural gas pipeline that serves
2,300 customers between Lincoln City
and Depoe Bay on Thursday, leaving a stretch of the coast
without service.
21 February 2007 - USA - TRACKING THE TAHOE TSUNAMI
Last year scientists believed they found definitive proof that a
huge landslide caused approximately
100-foot waves to wash over what is now Tahoe City, sometime
within the last 20,000 years or so.
21 February 2007 - USA - USGS Premiers Documentary Film on
Landslide Danger in the Bay Area
20 February 2007 - USA - Falling rock kills child in car
An 11-month-old boy was killed Sunday south of Carbondale when a
rock careened down a steep
hillside, crashed through the windshield of his family's car and
struck him in the head, Pitkin County
authorities reported.
16 February 2007 - USA - Trouble on the Street of Dreams
A slow-moving landslide is sweeping around her $2.9 million
home, just four months after they
moved into the 7,000-square-foot showpiece, nicknamed Moxie by
the builder.
15 February 2007 - USA - Getting a jump on potential
landslides
A laser-based aerial survey provides a precise image of the
land's shape that geologists -- and now
residents -- can use to identify hazard areas
13 February 2007 - USA - Owners see their dream homes go slowly
downhill
The view of the valley and Utah Lake cannot be beat from their
perch on Mile High Drive. But joy
over being able to afford such panoramas has been replaced with
homeowners' pain of watching their
houses slowly slide down the hill.
11 February 2007 - USA - Crews Clearing Napa County
Landslide
Napa County Public Works Department crews are working to clear a
landslide that completely
blocked a westbound lane of Chiles and Pope Valley Road at state
Highway 128 in Napa County
early this morning, California Highway Patrol Officer Scott
Cakebread said.
07 February 2007 - Canada - Construction blasting likely
triggered landslide
Recent construction blasting likely helped to trigger the
massive landslide that dumped tonnes of
boulders and mud on to the Sea to Sky Highway on Sunday, the
province's transportation ministry
said yesterday.
04 February 2007 - USA - Stevenson home abandoned after
landslide
A huge landslide in the Columbia River Gorge has forced a family
to abandon its hillside home, while
as many as 30 more families, who live in the valley below the
slide, are on standby awaiting possible
evacuation orders. The slide happened in the hills just above
Stevenson, Washington, across the
Columbia River from Cascade Locks.
04 February 2007 - Canada - Sea-to-Sky Highway reopens after
landslide
Crews re-opened the Sea-to-Sky highway Sunday night after a
landslide blocked the land link
between Vancouver and the B.C. ski resort of Whistler.
05 January 2007 - Canada - Landslide knocks train off a
cliff
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Two CN rail workers were pulled to safety early yesterday
morning after passing a chilly night
huddled on the side of a British Columbia canyon where their
locomotive hit a rockslide and plunged
down a cliff.
15 December 2006 - USA - Landslide Causes Big Problems for Basin
City Farmers
People in Basin City get together to discuss what to do after a
massive landslide closed a major road
in the area. A new route has area farmers worried. It could cut
right through their farms and severely
impact their livelihood.
05 December 2006 - USA - California Geological Survey Releases
New Landslide Maps
With the rainy season approaching in the Bay Area, the
California Geological Survey is releasing five
landslide maps intended to protect public safety by guiding
future development.
04 December 2006 - Canada - Landslide shuts down roadway near
Uxbridge
A roadway in Brock township could be closed all week due to a
mudslide Friday afternoon.
25 November 2006 - Jamaica - Landslide Leaves One Dead
Inclement weather triggered a landslide yesterday that claimed
that life of a resident of Breastworks in
Portland, Jamaica, officials disclosed.
14 November 2006 - USA - Landslide Danger Continues
Early storms have already brought falling trees, debris flows
and landslides, and experts say the
danger continues.
09 November 2006 - USA - Landslide closes North Cascades
Highway
A slide beneath state Route 20 has closed the northernmost route
across the Cascade Mountains, state
officials said Thursday.
08 November 2006 - USA - Landslide Destroys Laguna Beach
Neighborhood
A landslide sent at least 12 million-dollar homes crashing down
a hill early Wednesday and damaged
as many as 15 others in this coastal Orange County enclave.
01 November 2006 - USA - Hawaii- Landslide Closes Pali
Highway
The Pali Highway was closed in both directions at around 10:45
AM Wednesday morning due to a
landslide. The landslide is on the town side of the town-bound
tunnel. Mud and trees are completely
covering the roadway on the town-bound lanes.
27 October 2006 - USA - Lake Tahoe Landslide Caused Ancient
Tsunami
A massive underwater landslide in Lake Tahoe thousands of years
ago caused a tsunami and left
ripplelike stony ridges on the lake bottom, according to a new
study.
26 October 2006 - USA - Landslide closes Makena State Park
section
A second Maui park area was closed Wednesday as a result of
rocky cliffs fracturing, possibly
stemming from the Oct. 15 earthquakes that rattled the state.
The state Department of Land and
Natural Resources said it has closed a portion of Makena State
Park after a landslide occurred on the
Puu Olai cinder cone.
25 October 2006 - Canada - State of emergency in N.L. town after
landslide threatens homes, store
A small town in western Newfoundland has declared a state of
emergency after a landslide prompted
the evacuation of four homes and a store.
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20 October 2006 - USA - Rain causes landslide, floods Route
30
Steady rain flooded a portion of eastbound Route 30 in Ligonier
Township on Thursday night.
Several hours earlier, a minor landslide in Apollo, on Route 66,
was caused by the soggy weather.
12 October 2006 - USA - Hawaii - Magnitude 6.6 earthquake
strikes Hawaii, causing landslide, power
outages
A strong earthquake shook Hawaii early Sunday, jolting residents
out of bed and causing a landslide
that blocked a major highway. Ceilings crashed at a hospital,
and aftershocks kept the state on edge.
12 October 2006 - USA - New Slide Puts Pittsburg Homes Back In
Jeopardy
There are new problems for homeowners living on the edge of a
gaping landslide in Eastern Contra
Costa County. The earth movement that first put their homes in
jeopardy a few months back has
returned.
10 October 2006 - USA - Landslide may affect long-term
operations
A "massive landslide" at Trapper Mine on Sunday probably will
not affect operations this year, but it
may down the road, said mine President and General Manager Ray
DuBois.
04 October 2006 - USA - Governor Announces New Landslide Hazard
Maps for Western N.C.
Gov. Mike Easley today announced the first in a series of county
maps to enable communities to
evaluate and reduce the risks of building homes and other
structures in landslide-prone areas of the
North Carolina mountains.
04 October 2006 - USA - Hawaii - Landslide Fears Lead to
Hillside Development Protest
The hillsides above Aina Haina in east Oahu are unstable. That's
what a group of residents there claim
and it s why they re fighting a proposed development in their
neighborhood.
01 October 2006 - USA - PennDOT reopens part of Route 65
A Sept. 19 landslide at the site of a Wal-Mart Supercenter under
construction sent tons of dirt, rock
and trees crashing onto Route 65 and onto two of three railroad
tracks on the other side of the
highway. An estimated 22,000 motorists each day had to follow a
winding detour that added several
miles and, at times, more than an hour to their travel. The
railroad tracks reopened Monday.
30 September 2006 - USA - Unstable soil, steep slope a double
whammy in Kilbuck
The River Pointe Plaza development in Kilbuck sits smack on top
of one of the most landslide-prone
areas in Allegheny County. Kilbuck officials approved
construction of the development in 2002 even
though two federal land documents show the former Dixmont State
Hospital grounds proposed to
become home to a Wal-Mart Supercenter would sit on property
prone to slides.
South America South America
22 April 2007 - Chili - 3 dead, 7 missing after quake causes
landslide into ocean in southern Chile
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An earthquake in remote southern Chile shook free a landslide of
rocks, sending them smashing into a
narrow fjord and causing massive 25-foot waves that swept away
10 beachgoers. Three bodies were
recovered Sunday.
11 April 2007 - Dominican Republic - Flood and landslide
warnings for Dominican Republic
The National Meteorological Office in the Dominican Republic has
advised people in Montecristi,
Santiago Rodríguez, San Juan and Independencia provinces to take
precautions against flash flooding
and landslides.
26 February 2007 - Guatemala - Guatemala City restores calm
after landslide
Calm has returned to the Guatemala City neighborhood of San
Antonio after a major landslide killed
three people and triggered the evacuation of hundreds of local
residents, according to news on Sunday.
19 February 2007 - Colombia - Colombian volcano erupts causing
landslide, no injures
The Nevado del Huila volcano erupted Monday, spewing a column of
ash hundreds of meters (thousands
of feet) into the air and triggering a series of tremors that
set off a small avalanche.
02 February 2007 - Peru - Inca Ruins Trail to Machu Picchu
Closed
Inca ruins trail to Machu Picchu was closed in Peru due to a
landslide that blocked the railway that
connects the archeological place with Cusco city.
12 January 2007 - Brazil - Subway Landslide in Brazil Swallows
Bus, Cars and Trucks. 7 Feared Dead
At least seven people are disappeared and feared dead following
a landslide this afternoon at the São
Paulo subway's Yellow Line in Nações Unidas avenue, on the
city's west side. A truck and a microbus
were swallowed by the crater of about 30 meters (100 feet).
05 January 2007 - Brazil - Rain leaves at least 20 people dead
in Brazil
At least 20 people have died in Brazil due to heavy rain that
has fallen since Wednesday in the country's
industrialised south-eastern region, authorities said in a
preliminary report.
14 November 2006 - Colombia - Landslide kills 5 children in
western Colombia
A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried a mountainside adobe
home in western Colombia on Tuesday,
killing five children as they slept, including a six-month-old
baby, officials said.
24 October 2006 - Barbados - Landslide in the making at Parks
Yard
Landslides in Barbados, particularly across the Scotland
District, are nothing new.
Many people who live in this area, especially in the hilly
sections of St Joseph and St Andrew, have
experienced them personally, while people who have to travel
through these parishes seem never to be
surprised by diversions caused by broken roads.
Europe
28 May 2007 - Europe - Storms Wreak Havoc In Europe And Turkey,
20 Dead (Javno News)
20 May 2007 - Bulgaria - Landslide closed off Sofia-Pernik road
in Vladaya area
A landslide has closed off the Sofia-Pernik road in the area
around Vladaya.
19 May 2007 - Bulgaria - Part of Iskar Gorge road blocked by
landslide
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A landslide has blocked half of the roadway in the Iskar Gorge
between the towns of Mezdra and Svoge,
a correspondent of FOCUS News Agency reported.
15 May 2007 - Bulgaria - ROAD TO BULGARIA’S GOLDEN SANDS RESORT
COULD BE MOVED
BECAUSE OF LANDSLIDES
The road to the Black Sea coastal resort of Golden Sands could
be moved because of landslides,
Regional Development Minister Assen Gagauzov said.
23 April 2007 - Spain - Landslide destroys part of Macael sports
stadium
A landslide of 150,000 cubic metres of earth has destroyed part
of the municipal sports stadium in the
town of Macael.
13 April 2007 - Spain - Four injured in freeway landslide
Four people were injured -three of whom seriously- last night
after becoming trapped inside two cars
partially buried by a landslide caused by recent heavy rain
09 April 2007 - Ireland - Co Kerry road closed after
landslide
A major tourist route in Co Kerry is expected to remain closed
for a considerable period of time
following a landslide.
09 April 2007 - Austria - 6 injured in landslide in Austrian
Alps
Six people were injured, one seriously, when a landslide caused
part of a hotel in the Austrian Alps to
collapse early today, authorities said.
05 April 2007 - Azerbaijan - Landslide occurs in Azerbaijani
region
Landslip occurred in the village of Vasha of Ismayilli region,
Azerbaijan, deputy head of the region’s
executive power Khalid Ganiyev told the APA.
28 March 2007 - Bulgaria - Bulgarian Worker Buried by
Landslide
Landslide buried a 32-year-old Bulgarian construction worker in
the capital city of Sofia on Tuesday.
22 March 2007 - Macedonia - Landslide kills construction worker
at Kozjak dam
One worker of the construction company Granit was killed and one
injured in a landslide that took place
on Wednesday at Kozjak dam.
14 March 2007 - England - Farm is hit by landslide
Part of a Shropshire farm has been closed off following a
landslide.Trees fell into a brook after heavy
rain caused the ground to move at Rays Farm Country Matters,
Billingsley, near Bridgnorth.
06 March 2007 - Chechnya - Landslide flattens down 6 houses in
Chechen village
05 March 2007 - England - Landslide causes road closure
A landslide caused chaos for commuters after a wall collapsed
sending debris across the road.
03 March 2007 - France - Mont Blanc tunnel closed due to
landslide
The Mont Blanc tunnel connecting France and Italy has been
closed to traffic due to a landslide on the
French side, the ATMB company which jointly runs the tunnel said
on Saturday.
15 February 2007 - England - Safety check following
landslide
A safety assessment is to be carried out following a landslide
near Newquay in Cornwall.
14 February 2007 - England - Barrier stops derailment repeat
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A barrier wall erected at the bottom of a railway embankment
after a landslide derailed a train has
prevented a repeat of the incident.
07 February 2007 - England - Landslide gives mansion sea
view
A British vending machine tycoon is getting a better sea view
than he expected following a landslide that
puts his mansion at the edge of a cliff in Devon.
01 February 2007 - Ireland - Landslide causes worry for Clare
Island residents
A HUGE landslide on Clare Island which affected water supply has
resulted in calls for preventative
measures to be put in place.
13 January 2007 - UK - Train derailed by landslide
A landslide has derailed a train causing serious disruption to
rail passengers.
02 January 2007 - UK - Woman killed by landslide on beach after
a day of gales
A stroll along a beach ended in horror yesterday when a woman
was killed by a landslide in front of her
partner.
25 December 2006 - Portugal - Two dead in landslide in Azores
islands, officials say
Two people were kil