{"id":107,"date":"2010-06-01T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/01\/attabad-further-retrogressive-erosion\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:30","slug":"attabad-further-retrogressive-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/01\/attabad-further-retrogressive-erosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Attabad &#8211; further retrogressive erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest photos from the site, taken late yesterday, show that the retrogressive erosion of the channel is continuing to develop rapidly.&nbsp; This image was taken at about 5 pm yesterday:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/DSC02832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/DSC02832.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The lower part of the channel has widened and, more importantly, the steep section has moved up channel considerably.&nbsp; Bear in mind that this image is more than 15 hours old now.&nbsp; The best illustration of the way that this is developing is with this sequence of three images, which are taken about a day apart, starting on 29th May on the left and ending with 31st May on the right:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-three-images-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-three-images-2.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It seems to me that release of the water in the lake is now highly likely in the next few days.&nbsp; The most likely mode of failure looks to be this retrogressive erosion, which could lead to a rapid release event, but the initiation of erosion through downcutting cannot be ruled out.&nbsp; Downstream communities need to be prepared. <\/p>\n<p>I have received no update on the state of flow in the channel &#8211; I will post again when some information becomes available.<\/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>The latest photos from the site, taken late yesterday, show that the retrogressive erosion of the channel is continuing to develop rapidly.&nbsp; This image was taken at about 5 pm yesterday: The lower part of the channel has widened and, more importantly, the steep section has moved up channel considerably.&nbsp; Bear in mind that this image is more than 15 hours old now.&nbsp; The best illustration of the way that &hellip;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,47,58,15,10],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attabad","tag-barrier-lake","tag-hunza","tag-landslide-dam","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","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=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}