{"id":136,"date":"2010-05-17T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/17\/even-more-seepage-at-attabad\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:40","slug":"even-more-seepage-at-attabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/17\/even-more-seepage-at-attabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more seepage at Attabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of seepage at the Attabad landslide is now increasing at a rapid rate, and a new seepage point emerged in the last 24 hours.&nbsp; This graph shows the seepage rate since the start of monitoring:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-seepage-full-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-seepage-full-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The current rate of increase does pose the risk of a seepage-induced failure.&nbsp; This is not inevitable, but the risk is increasing with time.&nbsp; The authorities need to be prepared for the possibility that seepage could develop very rapidly indeed.&nbsp; The most recent Focus update provided an image of the two main seepage points:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-seepage-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-seepage-image.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The one below the spillway is the one that developed at the end of last week &#8211; yesterday this was discharging about 1 cubic metre per second.&nbsp; To the right is the main seepage point &#8211; yesterday this was producing 2.8 cubic metres per second.&nbsp; Note how much erosion these seepage points have generated in the channels they have cut.&nbsp; This does not bode well.<\/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 rate of seepage at the Attabad landslide is now increasing at a rapid rate, and a new seepage point emerged in the last 24 hours.&nbsp; This graph shows the seepage rate since the start of monitoring: The current rate of increase does pose the risk of a seepage-induced failure.&nbsp; This is not inevitable, but the risk is increasing with time.&nbsp; The authorities need to be prepared for the possibility &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-136","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\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}