{"id":12867,"date":"2014-10-15T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2014-10-15T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:57:09","slug":"a-surfing-backhoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/10\/15\/a-surfing-backhoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Three great new landslide videos, including a surfing backhoe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A surfing backhoe<\/h5>\n<p>The first of these three new landslide videos is a really interesting film of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03N1364FPIY\">small landslide taking out a backhoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03N1364FPIY<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a nice example of a slide triggered by excess loading at the crest of the slope &#8211; in this case the backhoe itself.\u00a0 The slide is small, only removing the land on which the excavator is standing.\u00a0 Note the high mobility of the slide once it starts though.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that the backhoe remains upright.\u00a0 The sliding surface is clearly visible at the end of the video &#8211; a beautiful illustration of the way that a clay-rich soil can form a low friction sliding plane.<\/p>\n<h5>A large landslide in Taiwan<\/h5>\n<p>This video is over a year old, but I&#8217;ve not seen it previously as far as I&#8217;m aware.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6znMf8nbHgU\">This is probably one of the highest quality videos<\/a> of a large-scale landslide that I&#8217;ve seen to date:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The horrible landslide in Taiwan \u5c4f\u6771\u6050\u6016\u7684\u5c71\u5d29\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6znMf8nbHgU?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>The most interesting aspect of this slide is the precursory activity that occurs across the slope before the main collapse event.\u00a0 It would be really interesting to map this in time and space.\u00a0 This is I think an indication that the whole block is moving, which as a result is deforming, popping off the smaller failures.\u00a0 Just before the main collapse small rockfalls and landslides are occurring across the whole slope, as this image shows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-taiwan-video-e1413355245541.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12868\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-taiwan-video-e1413355245541.png\" alt=\"Backhoe\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5>A soil slide from Indonesia<\/h5>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=aa6_1413329331\">this landslide video appeared on Liveleak yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=85f3532e1202\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It was reportedly collected in Manado in Sulewesi in Indonesia.\u00a0 Again, the slope shows lots of precursory landslide activity before the main failure event.\u00a0 Shortly before the failure a man walks along the road that was subsequently inundated; I wonder whether he managed to escape.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that the main slide appears to then trigger a second failure on a different part of the slope.\u00a0 It is not clear to me why this should have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>I have come across three really interesting and high quality new landslide videos, including one that shows a backhoe surfing a landslide<!-- 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":12868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[810,469,141,963,81],"class_list":["post-12867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-backhoe","tag-featured","tag-indonesia","tag-landslide-video","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867","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=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}