22 March 2011
Three videos for World Water Day
Posted by Dave Petley
Today is World Water Day, so here are three, rather different, videos of aspects of hazards that water can pose:
1. Liquefaction
Following on from the video of the effects of liquefaction in action, this video gives an idea of how the process operates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KqlAMWMjOE
2. Mudflow
3. Tsunami
If you can, watch to the end, and keep in mind what the harbour looked like at the start:
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.
[…] Update: for those who are confused by the process of liquefaction – and the comments below suggest that are many for whom this is the case – there is a video that allows one to get an idea of the process that was occurring below the surface at the park in Japan in this post. […]
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Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……