One month later, what has been done for the victims of Tumbi?

One month later, what has been done for the victims of Tumbi? When I last wrote about the Tumbi landslide on 29 January, we had no firm data on the disaster’s death toll, little humanitarian assistance had been made available to the displaced, and the national government was tightlipped on how they would discover the landslide’s cause. Incredibly, over three weeks later little has changed.

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the landslide engulfed a large proportion of Tumbi Quarry (Quarry QA1)which wasbeing usedtosupply aggregate for the development of haulage roads and the Komo Airfield, in support of the Liquefied

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O’Neill orders troops into Hela to protect miners Keith ...

The road blocks were set up in the weeks after up to 29 settlers were killed in a landslide at the Tumbi quarry. "As a responsible government, we cannot sit back and allow hooligans in our community to threaten and disrupt normalcy, and place vital economic projects at risk," Mr O'Neill said.

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PNGexposed Blog | Exposing the truth about corruption ...

Feb 11, 2012· PNGexposed Blog. Exposing the truth about corruption. Home; About; ... over the last few days there appears to have been increased interest in the role of the quarry in the Tumbi Quarry landslide. The National Disaster Center report has indicated that the failure developed as subsidence close to the quarry. ... It can be the case that cutting a ...

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Expert report warned Exxon about Tumbi quarry Keith ...

A REUTERS NEWS INVESTIGATION into the deadly Tumbi landslide in the Southern Highlands has revealed that an expert report had questioned the safety of excavations conducted by Exxon Mobil, which is building a billion gas project in the region. The January landslide tore through the quarry and ...

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The Forgotten Disaster: Outstanding Issues Arising from ...

The Forgotten Disaster: Outstanding Issues Arising from the Tumbi Landslide . On 24 January 2012, a landslide in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea buried the villages of Tumbi and Tumbiago. PNG Red Cross has estimated that between 25 …

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Tumbi disaster | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch

Nov 07, 2013· At the landslide’s epicentre was the QA1 limestone quarry run by MCJV, an Exxon Mobil subcontractor. The quarry serviced construction work for Exxon’s 19 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, known locally as PNG LNG. For villagers living near Tumbi, the quarry was always a concern.

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Geospatial approach with frequency ratio method in ...

Here, we review the shortterm rainfall patterns leading up to the slope failure at Tumbi Quarry and compare the rainfall accumulations obtained over durations of 30, 60 and 90 days prior to the ...

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Tumbi disaster: Exxon rushed to meet deadlines Keith ...

Tumbi disaster: Exxon rushed to meet deadlines ... The landslide tore through a quarry used by Exxon in January, killing at least 25 people in the poor South Pacific country, but it has stirred little international publicity, even though an expert report had questioned the safety of the excavations. ... collapsing through the Tumbi quarry and ...

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what s the difference between quarry and gravel pit

what s the difference between quarry and gravel pit. Our Purpose And Belief. LM Heavy Industry is committed to provide the global customers with the firstclass products and superior service, striving to maximize and optimize the interests and values of the customers, and …

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(PDF) Tumbi Landslide, Papua New Guinea: Rainfall induced?

a An aerial photograph showing Tumbi Quarry 2 years prior (27 January 2010) to the landslide on 24 January 2012 (Petley 2012) and b a second aerial photograph showing the Tumbi Landslide shortly ...

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A document attached to the complaint—the Tumbi Quarry Landslide Investigation Report, which was commissioned by a local clan chief shortly after the disaster—also alleges that ExxonMobil had ...

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Continued questions about the role of the quarry in the ...

Feb 13, 2012· Continued questions about the role of the quarry in the Tumbi Quarry landslide. ... over the last few days there appears to have been increased interest in the role of the quarry in the Tumbi Quarry landslide. The National Disaster Center report has indicated that the failure developed as subsidence close to the quarry. ... It can be the case ...

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ExxonMobil | PNGexposed Blog | Page 3

Feb 17, 2012· THE K10 million promised by the national government for the Tumbi landslide disaster in Southern Highlands province last month is yet to be released. The landslide, which occurred at the Tumbi quarry of the LNG project near Hides on Jan 24, killed more than 60 people. So far, 40 bodies have been recovered.

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PNG LEADER O’NEILL VISITS LANDSLIDE DISASTER SITE ...

PNG LEADER O’NEILL VISITS LANDSLIDE DISASTER SITE PM declares landslide ‘one of the worst disasters in our history’ By Peter Korugl and Andrew Alphone PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (PNG PostCourier, Jan. 26, 2012) – Weeping mothers greeted Prime Minister Peter O’Neill when he arrived at the site of what authorities describe as the worst landslide ever to hit Papua New Guinea.

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LNG | Papua New Guinea Mine Watch | Page 24

In 2012, a devastating landslide from a quarry being excavated by a project subcontractor buried two villages, Tumbi and Tumbiago, killing an estimated 60 people and destroying 42 homes. Safety concerns about quarry operations had been identified by an independent environmental consultant, D’Appolonia, the previous year.

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The Tumbi Quarry landslide so how can a quarry cause a ...

A question that has arisen a few times about the Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea is why it is that a quarry can increase landslide occurrence. The first point to be made is that many quarries, when properly managed, do not cause slope instability. However, some of the most spectacular ...

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Lest we forget: The Tumbi Landslide of 2012 – PNG Echo

Jan 26, 2014· By PNG Echo. Tumbi landslide site. On January 24, 2012, almost two years ago to the day, 3 million cubic metres of earth, estimated to be 30 metres high, and 150 metres wide covering an area the size of 14 rugby fields, fell 560 metres from the escarpment to the toe in Tumbi in the Komo sub district of the Hela Province

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The Tumbi Quarry landslide on the difference between ...

In the case of the Tumbi Quarry landslide, this distinction is important. In investigating the landslide we must not consider just the trigger. It may well be that the quarry was inactive at the time of the landslide, and that exceptionally heavy rainfall had occurred.

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Landslide survivors still search for justice Keith ...

The landslide, kilometers long, descended from the top of a mountain where the Tumbi Quarry is located, obliterating the villages of Tumbi and Tumbiago, near Tari. The Papua New Guinea Red Cross estimates 42 homes were destroyed and 60 people perished.

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Papua New Guinea | PNGexposed Blog | Page 110

Feb 25, 2012· The Papua New Guinea NGO which provides scrutiny of the country’s major gas project, led by Exxon Mobil, says an investigation into the Tumbi landslide which the government promised still hasn’t started. The disaster in the Southern Highlands on January 24th is …

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landslide | PNGexposed Blog

Feb 04, 2012· On another note, we have also seen a shoddy pieces of research conducted by the National Disaster Committee, which has been slammed by international landslide experts, being paraded by the industry as fact: “There are claims blasting at the Tumbi quarry may have contributed to the landslide.

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An official report on the Tumbi Quarry landslide Keith ...

THE NATIONAL DISASTER COUNCIL of Papua New Guinea has posted online a report into the Tumbi Quarry landslide (see previous posts here, here, and here). Presumably this is the “official investigation” that was promised. They should be credited with making this available online, and the document ...

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Tumbi Landslide, Papua New Guinea: rainfall induced ...

Aug 25, 2013· Abstract. On 24 January 2012, a fatal landslide with an estimated volume of 3 Mm 3 hit villagers and infrastructure in the Tagali Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Although a moderate event by PNG standards, the associated human casualties and infrastructure destruction give a human as well as a scientific need to review the potential causes for the event.

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Malum Nalu: 60 killed in landslide disaster

Jan 25, 2012· By ISAAC NICHOLAS MORE than 60 villagers reportedly died and many more unaccounted for after a major landslide buried homes, vehicles and properties at dawn yesterday, The National reports. The disaster near the Tumbi quarry of the PNG LNG project near Hides, Southern Highlands province, occurred between 3am and 5am.

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what is difference between mine and quarry

The Tumbi Quarry landslide on the difference between trigger and ... Feb 13, 2012 ... An exploration of the difference between cause and trigger for landslides, ... In the case of the Tumbi Quarry landslide, this distinction is important. ... This is a collection of images of landslides caused by …

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The Tumbi Quarry landslide a new documentary The ...

May 14, 2014· The Tumbi Quarry landslide. The Tumbi Quarry landslide occurred in Papua New Guinea on 24 January 2012, killing at least 25 people. The landslide was both large and catastrophic: The landslide occurred in a quarry that had been used by contractors working for Esso Highlands, on a natural gas pipeline.

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tumbi quarry landslide case

A new paper on the Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea , 4 Nov 2013 , The Tumbi Quarry landslide was a deepseated failure, so one would expect that the landslide would , This may well be the case, but it is really important to note that benching would not increase the stability of a slope th.

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(PDF) Tumbi Landslide, Papua New Guinea: rainfall induced ...

However, the distances ciated with the Tumbi Landslide event, a review of earthquake between the earthquake epicentres and the location of Tumbi activity throughout the PNG mainland for the coincident 90day Quarry and the landslide site exceed 150 km in all cases.

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Context for the Tumbi Quarry landslide – an image gallery ...

Thanks to everyone who has submitted ideas of images of the landslides in and around quarries and open cast mines, in response to the Tumbi Quarry landslide posts.. This is a collection of images of landslides caused by mining and quarrying. I will add to it through time, so …

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Comparing the response to the Tumbi Quarry and Philippines . Feb 10, 2012 An update on both the Tumbi Quarry and Philippine earthquake landslides, including new images from the Philippines. ... Crim Case/s 26913 Creus Sandiganbayan. Dec 17, 2004 Criminal Case …

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Investigating the Tumbi Disaster state crime

Investigating the Tumbi Disaster. At around 4am last Tuesday morning, a landslide along swept through Tumbi, in Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands, while residents lay asleep. Reporting from the ground, Andrew Alphonse conveys a scene of devastation:

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Crosby/Krieger

So, spending time looking for a trigger for the Tumbi Quarry landslide is interesting and worthwhile, and I have no problem with this sort of work. However, we must first recognise that the basic question should be whether there is a landslide trigger at all, and if so what? It may well be the case that no landslide trigger can be identified.

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