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Landslide data of 14 earthquake affected districts of Nepal

Updated Date: 7/15/2025 1:59:17 PM

Nepal earthquake of 2015 resulted in activation and re-activation of many landslides in and around epi-center and after shock areas. The landslide inventory was prepared by visually digitizing landslide polygons on Google Earth Pro. The earthquake database contains both pre-event landslide and co-siesmic landslides.

Landslide data of 14 earthquake affected districts of Nepal
Schema iso19139
Purpose The landslide database serves as baseline landslide data with multiple utility. These data serves as input data for landslide hazard/susceptibility mapping.
Descriptive Keyword Earthquake Affected District, Landslide, Landslides (theme) Nepal (place)
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Language eng
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Hierarchy Level dataset
Date 2025-07-15T13:59:17
Standard Name North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
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Name Mr. Deo Raj Gurung Email metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name ICIMOD Voice
Position name Remote Sensing Specialist Address
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Title Landslide data of 14 earthquake affected districts of Nepal
Date 2016-01-07
Date Type publication
Abstract Nepal earthquake of 2015 resulted in activation and re-activation of many landslides in and around epi-center and after shock areas. The landslide inventory was prepared by visually digitizing landslide polygons on Google Earth Pro. The earthquake database contains both pre-event landslide and co-siesmic landslides.
Purpose The landslide database serves as baseline landslide data with multiple utility. These data serves as input data for landslide hazard/susceptibility mapping.
Status completed
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Topic Category geoscientificInformation
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Cited Responsible Parties
Name Mr. Deo Raj Gurung Email metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name ICIMOD Voice 977-1-5275222
Position name Remote Sensing Specialist Address Nepal
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Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East 86.70 Geographic Extent West 84.57
Geographic Extent North 28.57 Geographic Extent South 26.99
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Use Limitation Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2016). Landslide data of 14 earthquake affected districts of Nepal [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.31016
Use Limitation Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Reference System Information
Code WGS 1984
Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level dataset
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Email metadata@icimod.org Organization Name ICIMOD
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