{"id":13940,"date":"2015-01-05T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=13940"},"modified":"2015-01-05T08:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T08:06:20","slug":"erlang-village-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/01\/05\/erlang-village-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Erlang village, Guizhou: a deadly rockslide in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #0008ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Erlang Village, Xishui County, Guizhou<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>The Chinese media is reporting that a large rockslide occurred at Erlang Village in Xishui County within Guizhou Province in SW China.\u00a0 The landslide reportedly occurred at 3:40 pm on Sunday, covering a major highway that links Chengdu and Zunyi City in Guizhou.\u00a0 It is known that at least 3 people have been killed, but search efforts continue in the fear that there may be further vehicles buried beneath the debris.<\/p>\n<p>The best overview of the landslide, which reportedly has a volume of 80,000 cubic metres, that I have found to date is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.now.com\/home\">Now News website<\/a> (in Chinese):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13941\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-1-e1420443003587.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13941\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-1-e1420443003587.jpg\" alt=\"Erland landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.now.com\/home\">Now News<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the image is not particularly good, this looks to be about as good an example of a rockslide on a pre-existing discontinuity (bedding plane?) as you are ever likely to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/12394\/2015\/01\/05\/3941s859890.htm\">CRI English<\/a> has some rather better images of the aftermath:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13942\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-2-e1420443928264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13942\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13942\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-2-e1420443928264.jpg\" alt=\"Erlang landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/12394\/2015\/01\/05\/3941s859890.htm\">CRI English<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13943\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-3-e1420443985451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13943\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/01\/15_01-Erlang-3-e1420443985451.jpg\" alt=\"Erlang landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/12394\/2015\/01\/05\/3941s859890.htm\">CRI English<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty of recovering the potentially-buried victims is easy to appreciate.\u00a0 My suspicion is that the concrete structures seen in the images are the grid works associated with rockbolts or ground anchors, in place to stabilise the slope.\u00a0 If so then these works have not been successful, so it would be interesting to know why this slope failure has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced 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