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HMA_LS_Cat·v2·dataset

Where landslides happened in High Mountain Asia

High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog V002
land NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level NA Shapefile
In plain English

What it measures. A catalog of about 2,800 landslides in the High Mountain Asia region from 2007 to 2018, listing each event's date and location plus details like its trigger, country, size, and any injuries or deaths.

How it's made. Compiled from ground-based observations and citizen-science reports drawn from an open online landslide repository, focused on the High Mountain Asia area.

How & where you'd use it. Helps researchers study landslide patterns and triggers in a hazard-prone mountain region and informs disaster-risk and safety planning.

What's measured

LAND SURFACE › EROSION/SEDIMENTATION › LANDSLIDES

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1990-01-28 → 2018-12-31
  • Measured byGROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS (MULTIPLE)
  • Processing levelLevel NA
  • Spatial extent61, 20, 111, 45
  • FormatsShapefile
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official 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.

Get the data

hma_ls_cat_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="HMA_LS_Cat",
    version="2",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.