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NASA On Air: NASA Landslide Catalog Now Available (4/21/2015)

Released on April 21, 2015

LEAD: A new website now totals up landslide occurrences and resulting deaths across the U.S. and the world.

1. NASA and other researchers have tracked global news and web reports of rain-caused landslides since 2007.

2. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 20,000 people have died in 6,000 landslides - an average of 2,500 per year.

3. An interactive website will help researchers match future news reports of landslides with the data of heavy rain from a new satellite-based network covering Earth.

TAG: Early warning for potential landslides is the long-term goal.

For More Information

Research paper in Geomorphology

Global Landslide Catalog

Credits

Howard Joe Witte (ADNET): Producer
Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Data Visualizer
George Huffman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Joy Ng (USRA): Animator
Joy Ng (USRA): Video Editor

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center