{"id":14,"date":"2010-09-16T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/16\/zhouqu-landslide-nasa-satellite-image\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:02","slug":"zhouqu-landslide-nasa-satellite-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/16\/zhouqu-landslide-nasa-satellite-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhouqu landslide &#8211; NASA satellite image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45773\">NASA have somehow managed to find a gap in the clouds<\/a> to collect a satellite image of the Zhouqu landslide site.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/first-image-from-gansu-landslide.html\">Readers at the time of the landslide last month<\/a> will remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/update-on-disasters-in-china-and.html\">I was wondering about the source of the slides<\/a>.&nbsp; Although this image does not give a full answer, it gets us a part of the way there:<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Zhouqu-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Zhouqu-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A zoom into the affected area yields this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Zhouqu-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Zhouqu-1.jpg\" width=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The slides (note the smaller one to the right of the main event) clearly originated as a series of smaller slips on the walls and headwaters of the upstream catchments.&nbsp; These appear to have coalesced to form the main events.&nbsp; This is consistent with processes observed elsewhere during periods of exceptional rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I am now in Christchurch in New Zealand, site of the earthquake of 12 days ago.&nbsp; Every 30 minutes or so my chair shakes as an <a href=\"http:\/\/images.geonet.org.nz\/maps\/quakes\/262-christchurch-quake.jpg\">aftershock rattles the area<\/a>, which is a very surreal experience.<\/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>NASA have somehow managed to find a gap in the clouds to collect a satellite image of the Zhouqu landslide site.&nbsp; Readers at the time of the landslide last month will remember that I was wondering about the source of the slides.&nbsp; Although this image does not give a full answer, it gets us a part of the way there: A zoom into the affected area yields this: The slides &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":[16,26,25,8],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-gansu","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-imagery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}