[HOT] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Re: Disaster waiting to happen in Pakistan]

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

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Sujet : 	[CrisisMappers] Re: Disaster waiting to happen in Pakistan
Date : 	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:48:27 +0000
De : 	nmcwilliam at mapaction.org
Répondre à : 	crisismappers at googlegroups.com
Pour : 	crisismappers at googlegroups.com
Copie à : 	airving at mapaction.org, dilshad.bano at focushumanitarian.org



Hello all,

Just to let you know that MapAction is working with the NGO FOCUS  
Pakistan and two specialist flood modelling teams (*) to provide  
indications of the flood hazard should the landslide dam fail  
catastrophically.

(*) One at Newcastle and Durham Universities, UK, and one with the  
EU-funded SAFER project.

Some useful sources of info' about the situation:
http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Attabad
http://pamirtimes.net/
http://ndma.gov.pk/AttaHunzaLandslide.html

Best wishes,
Nick.

-----Original Message-----
From: crisismappers at googlegroups.com  
[mailto:crisismappers at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: 24 March 2010 17:08
To: CrisisMappers
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: Disaster waiting to happen in Pakistan]

thank you for this 'heads-up'.

UN-SPIDER got this message from SUPARCO in Pakistan last night:

"We have been continuously monitoring the ground situation due to a
massive landslide on Jan 4, 2010 which has blocked river Hunza using
both satellites and ground surveys. Pre and post landslide imagery as
well as other allied information was utilized to carry out assessment
of river blockage, water accumulation and landslide site demarcation.
This has been reported to the concerned agencies for remedial
action."

Certainly if there are experts in this area (civil engineers
experienced assessing earthen structure under hydrological pressure)
it would be good to know of them.

Chis Nicholas


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