17 April 2015
New landslide video: a fascinating and huge Russian earthflow
Posted by Dave Petley
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Russian Earthflow
An absolutely stunning new video has appeared on Youtube overnight showing footage shot from a road of the movement of a very large and very spectacular earthflow in Russia. It has to be said that the videographer was as cool as the weather in his or her slow retreat from the path of the landslide:-
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There is no information about the landslide, except that it occurred on 1st April 2015 at Zarechnyi. Liveleak also has the video of the Russian earthflow, with a label that says Penzenskaya Oblast. If this is correct then it is in an area on the western side of Russia. Given that this would be the thawing season, the conditions would be right for this type of landslide. But there is also a volcano called Zarechnyi on Kamchatka, although I assume that this is not the location of this landslide.
Does anyone have any more information?
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Lots of industrial equipement up behind. Some of it moving. Also, around 2:35 ish, what looks like an artificial fill pile of some variety.
Do you mean what looks like electric high tension towers which have been knocked over?
My Russian wife Vera found it all on the net and where the news came from.
The land slide was on a road between Novokuznetsk and Bolshaya Talda where there is also a railline along the road which is 1500km East of the Urals so not Western Russia. The land slide took place at 1pm local time, my wife can tell from the dialect that it is same as in this part of Russia also.
About 280km ESE of Novosibirsk, near Novokuznetsk. The name Zarechnyi is a very common name and could even be a local name for a mine or tiny settlement you might not find on a map.
Search in Google Earth Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Bolshaya Talda.
The landslide looks like it may have come from a large coal mine area. There are some diggings there like in the Hunter Valley in NSW Australia.
The landslide can be very dangerous, but now we are living in the modern world where we can get the future result about hazards, like earth quick. And many universities and research department are still working it.