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Landslide Reporter

Landslides affect nearly all countries, killing people and destroying billions of dollars worth of property every year. The Landslide Reporter web application allows you to help improve scientific modeling and emergency response to mitigate these disasters. Through this application, you’ll contribute observations and reports to the largest open global landslide catalog, the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR), used by researchers worldwide.

SAFETY NOTE: Make sure you are a safe distance away from any landslide you encounter. Even if a landslide appears to be over, there is still the possibility of falling rocks or unstable debris.

Go to Project Website about Landslide Reporter

project task

Collecting data with smartphone

division

Earth Science

where

Online

launched

2018

A true-color satellite image shows a green, mountainous area bisected from top right to bottom left by a large river. Clouds float over the peaks. A large brown-gray triangular scar starts at the top of a mountain and widens down to and across the riverbed. The river has cut through this material and washed it downstream, as evident by the brown color in the riverbed, which contrasts with the green color of the river upstream of the slide.
In August 2014, a large landslide (central tan-colored region) blocked the Sun Koshi River in Nepal, killing more than 100 people. Your landslide reports can help scientists understand landslides to avoid the loss of life that occurred in this August 2014 tragedy.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

What you'll do

  • Share information on landslides you see or read about in the news!
  • Be part of a global effort to better predict landslides. 
  • Share information to help improve NASA’s modeling of landslide risks and help scientists better understand the relationship between landslides and rainfall. 

Requirements

Get started!

  1. Did you see a landslide? Make sure you are a safe distance away from any landslide you encounter. 
  2. Go to the Landslide Reporter online reporting form and prepare your report. (Note, when you put your cursor in data entry box, instructions on how to fill out that box will appear.)

Learn More

The NASA Global Precipitation Monitoring website has a lot of information about landslides. If you are interested in the model that Landslide Reporter contributions are used to verify, you can do so at the global landslide nowcast web portal.

Connect with us on social media:

X: @LandslideReport

Facebook: LandslideReporter

SciStarter: Join us on our project page

Connect with our Community Google Group: Landslide Reporter Community

More questions? Send them to landslide_support@nccs.nasa.gov. 

The Landslide Reporter Logo A square, spiral bound notebook (spiral on top) shows a cartoon of a steep mountain with rocks cascading down its left side. Hovering over the falling rocks is a red teardrop marker of the type commonly used on maps to mark points of interest.
Artwork made on a computer depicts a hand holding a cell phone in front of a mountain road that has been blocked by debris from a landslide. The cell phone screen shows a map from the Landslide Reporter app.
Landslide reporter helps novices learn about landslides, including how to recognize landslide types and how to identify landslide locations from news articles.
Credit: Landslide Reporter Project

Get to know the people of Landslide Reporter!

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Dalia Kirschbaum

Director, Earth Sciences Division

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Thomas Stanley

Research Associate

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Rachel Soobitsky

Data Analyst

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