16 February 2010
Watch this! Extraordinary landslide video – Maierato, Italy
Posted by Dave Petley
The BBC has an extraordinary video of a landslide in Maierato in Southern Italy. More later, but for now the link is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8517378.stm
UPDATE: Youtube has a longer version of the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7s2NrEg1Qg
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.
The town San Fratello on Sicily has been evacuated as well.http://www.fotoglif.com/f/h64553xas6yuhttp://www.ilsalvagente.it/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Frana%20a%20Vibo%20Valentia:%20paura%20a%20Maierato%20%28il%20video%29,%202.000%20evacuati%20a%20San%20Fratello&idSezione;=5842There seem to be a few sites that mix up the two events.
I saw the landslide on TV and guessed you would put this on your blog. The link of BBC you listed said that the landslide occurred after 200 residences were excavated. I am very interested in how they operate the early warning process. They did a great job.
According to a geologist of the region Calabria the inactive landslide of Maierato showed signs of reactivation 10 days ago, so the streets were closed for security reasons.Also the weather was very rainy in the last weeks, and the region is known known by the unfavourable geological situation (many marls and argillaceous deposits of the Miocene-Pliocene)
Where are the Railway Children when you need them? 😉
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