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Description

This data set is an inventory of some 2800 landslides that occurred in the High Mountain Asia (HMA) study area between 5 January 2007 and 31 December 2018 (plus one event from 28 January 1990). The catalog includes dates and locations of landslides, plus additional characteristics such as event triggers, country, length and area of the slide, and the number of injuries and fatalities.

The events in this catalog represent an HMA-specific subset of the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR), a project that was created to build a more robust, publicly available inventory of landslides by supplementing data in the NASA Global Landslide Catalog with citizen science reports.

Version Description

New major version. Changes include:

  • Spatial coverage trimmed to the HMA study area
  • Includes corrections and new landslides added to COOLR source catalog after publication of V1

Product Summary

Platforms
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instruments
MULTIPLE
Spatial Extent

N: 45 S: 20 E: 111 W: 61

Geographic Region
HIMALAYAS
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1990-01-28 to 2018-12-31
Concept ID
C3249541744-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
2
Processing Level
NA
Published
Science Keywords
Landslides

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Kirschbaum, D., & Stanley, T. (2023). High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/E8U4F9M2NCCN Date Accessed: 2025-12-24

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