{"id":12570,"date":"2014-10-08T06:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=12570"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:50:03","slug":"sunkoshi-landslide-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/10\/08\/sunkoshi-landslide-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The current state of the Sunkoshi landslide in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The Sunkoshi Landslide<\/h5>\n<p>After the breach and the reconstruction of at least a rudimentary road, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/09\/24\/sunkoshi-landslide-road\/\">Sunkoshi landslide in Nepal<\/a> has dropped off the radar screen.\u00a0 Inevitably though the legacy of such an event lives on.\u00a0 An interesting insight into the state of play can be gleaned from a blog post put up by the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thisworldahead.com\/about\/\">This World Ahead<\/a>&#8221; team, two German nationals who are undertaking a 15 month long round the world motorbike tour.\u00a0 They reached the landslide this week and <a href=\"http:\/\/thisworldahead.com\/2014\/10\/07\/along-the-way-the-nepalese-landslide\/\">put up a blog post about it <\/a>yesterday, with some very high quality images.\u00a0 The pertinent section of the post says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After crossing the Chinese-Nepalese border in the north of Kathmandu we where facing the incredible dimension of the recent landslide. Tons of rocks, sand and mud, disrupting the green jungle. The massive slide, now calmly lying in the valley, tore a huge hole into the mountain, as if a giant had turned over the earth cover with a shovel and buried hundreds of people under it. It took us approximately four hours and hard work to pass the provisionally, three kilometers long path over the landslide.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have reproduced two of the images below.\u00a0 The first shows the landslide itself:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12571\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Sunkoshi-1-e1412749920778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12571\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12571\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Sunkoshi-1-e1412749920778.jpg\" alt=\"Sunkoshi\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/thisworldahead.com\/2014\/10\/07\/along-the-way-the-nepalese-landslide\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Note the state of the track on the foreground.\u00a0 This image shows the track itself:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12572\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Sunkoshi-2-e1412750175186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12572\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12572\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Sunkoshi-2-e1412750175186.jpg\" alt=\"Sunkoshi\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/thisworldahead.com\/2014\/10\/07\/along-the-way-the-nepalese-landslide\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that it took four hours to get two trail motorbikes a distance of three kilometres over the landslide, and the lack of vehicular traffic apart from motorbikes in the images, is very informative about the state of play at the landslide site.\u00a0 The impacts on the livelihoods of the population in this area must be profound.<\/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>Two German motorcyclists, undertaking a round the world tour, have posted a set of images of the current state of the Sunkoshi landslide in Nepal<!-- 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":12571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[469,959,66,800],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-images","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-nepal","tag-sunkoshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","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=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}