Post-Earthquake Slope Monitoring and Landslide Maps for Nepal 2015

Ten instrument stations deployed across ground cracks in Sindhupalchok, Nepal, recorded rainfall, ground acceleration, and crack extension after the 2015 earthquake. Data includes daily statistics for extension and three-axis acceleration, complemented by shapefiles mapping landslides in the Upper Bhote Kosi valley before and after the 2015 monsoon. This dataset was produced by the British Geological Survey under NERC grant NE/N007689/1.

Use Cases

• Modeling rainfall-triggered landslide susceptibility based on post-earthquake crack monitoring data.
• Analyzing ground motion decay and crack displacement trends based on accelerometer and extensometer time-series.
• Mapping changes in landslide distribution and extent based on pre- and post-monsoon shapefiles.
• Correlating instrument-recorded ground deformation with mapped landslide activity for validation.

Strengths

• Data from 10 distinct instrument stations provides spatial coverage across the study area.
• Includes both raw and processed daily statistics (min, max, mean, std) for each measured variable.
• Landslide mapping captures changes over a critical period (immediately post-earthquake and post-monsoon).

Limitations

• Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific study area in Sindhupalchok.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Data collected from 10 deployed instruments (rainfall gauge, accelerometer, extensometer) and field mapping.

Time Range

Post-2015 earthquake period, including the 2015 monsoon season.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:37:33.609406; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sindhupalchok district, Nepal, specifically the Upper Bhote Kosi valley.