Name: High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog, Version 1
Creator: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Keywords: LANDSLIDES

High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog, Version 1

Data set id:

HMA_LS_Cat

DOI: 10.5067/5ST0TZCD9RQ3

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Kirschbaum, D. B. (2019). High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog. (HMA_LS_Cat, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/5ST0TZCD9RQ3. [describe subset used if applicable]. Date Accessed 09-24-2025.

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Version Summary

Initial release

Overview

This data set is an open global landslide inventory with input from citizen scientists. The data include the time and location of various landslide events, as well as event characteristics, such as triggers, the number of fatalities, country of occurrence, and the length and area of the slide.

Parameter(s):

LANDSLIDES

Platform(s):

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Sensor(s):

MULTIPLE

Data Format(s):

Shapefile

Temporal Coverage:

10 February 1956 to 18 December 2018

Temporal Resolution:

Varies

Spatial Resolution:

varies

varies

Spatial Reference System(s):

WGS 84
EPSG:4326

Spatial Coverage:

N:
72.7
S:
-46.8
E:
180
W:
-180

Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.

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High Mountain Asia Landslide Catalog

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