4 May 2018
Chongqing: a dramatic rockfall video from China last month
Posted by Dave Petley
Chongqing: a dramatic rockfall video from China last month
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has posted a dramatic video on Youtube showing dashcam footage of a large rockfall in SW China on 9th April 2018. According to the Weather Channel this occurred in Chongqing. I cannot find much more information about this event:-
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The image below is not clear, but it shows the small pick-up truck that was on the road at the time of the rockfall. Large boulders, traveling at very high speed, narrowly missed making a direct impact on the vehicle:
The Choongqing rockfall on 9th April 2018. Still from a video from Xinhua via Youtube
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The larger displaced mass of soil can also be seen on the left side of the image. The reports suggest that no-one was killed or injured in this event.
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.