{"id":10003,"date":"2014-06-17T06:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:56:46","slug":"world-cup-2014-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/06\/17\/world-cup-2014-1\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014: a landslide affects the city of Natal in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>World Cup 2014<\/h5>\n<p>Alongside the World Cup 2014 tournament (for which the football has been wonderful, but let&#8217;s not talk about England&#8230;), parts of Brazil has been suffering from very heavy rainfall.\u00a0 The city of Natal, which yesterday hosted the match between Ghana and the USA, received extremely heavy rainfall over a 50 hour period at the start of this weekend, triggering a large landslide that destroyed 25 houses, but fortunately took no lives.\u00a0 This article has some images of the landslide:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10004\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/06\/14_06-Natal-1-e1402987024271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10004\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10004\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/06\/14_06-Natal-1-e1402987024271.jpg\" alt=\"World Cup 2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/football\/extreme-floods-cause-landslide-in-brazilian-city-natal-days-before-world-cup-game\/story-fnkjl6g2-1226957153821<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>The best coverage of the landslide is from some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=13oEz7HHWms\">drone footage that has been placed on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brazil: Drone captures landslide in World Cup town where US to play tonight\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13oEz7HHWms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>Note the extremely fine-grained nature of the soils, which make them very prone to erosion.\u00a0 The landslide appears to have a very unusual shape, with a planform that is similar to a cross.\u00a0 I would suspect that the two arms are the result of washout erosion once the main slide had occurred.\u00a0 Note the drainage pipes under the road on each side.<\/p>\n<p>There is a very nice paper describing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/983970?seq=1\">geology of the Natal region of Brazil on JSTOR<\/a>, dating from 1913.\u00a0 The paper describes the coastal region as being characterised by huge banks of sand blown in on the coastal winds, forming banks up to 75 feet (22 m high).\u00a0 This sand has become cemented to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst World Cup 2014 is ongoing in Brazil, a large landslide struck the host city of Natal on Friday, destroying 15 homes<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102,469,959,532],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-brazil","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-sand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}