{"id":14378,"date":"2015-01-27T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=14378"},"modified":"2015-01-27T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:10:51","slug":"tsarap-landslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/01\/27\/tsarap-landslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New satellite images of the Tsarap landslide in the Zanskar Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tsarap landslide images<\/h5>\n

The Tsarap landslide crisis in northern India<\/a> continues, although it is good to see that there has been an appropriate level of response to the hazard from the authorities.\u00a0 This is an interesting contrast to the initial indifference shown by the Pakistani authorities to the Attabad landslide<\/a> five years ago.\u00a0 Over the weekend, efforts started to airlift people trapped to the north of the landslide<\/a> – in total 300 people were trapped when the Chadar Trek was suspended.\u00a0 The same report also notes that the expert group formed by NDMA to advise on the management of the landslide dam will visit the site this week, so it will be interesting to hear what they have to say.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, also over the weekend, two sets of satellite images were published of the landslide site.\u00a0 The ever-wonderful NASA Earth Observatory published<\/a> a beautiful Landsat 8 OLI image of the area, collected on 18th January, that very clearly shows the slide:<\/p>\n

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NASA Landsat 8 OLI image<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Meanwhile the National Remote Sensing Centre<\/a> in India has also published a set of images<\/a>, with a higher resolution:<\/p>\n

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Cartosat 2 image of the landslide from the NRSC India<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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This is without doubt the best image of the landslide so far, showing both the source area and the slide itself, together with the impounded water.\u00a0 I remain concerned that the material forming the dam is potentially erodible and that the dam crest is short, both of which suggest that there is the potential for a rapid breach event when the water overtops the barrier.\u00a0 There remains some urgency to get a monitoring system in place for this landslide, and then to start the detailed planning for what will happen when snow melt starts to fill the lake more rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new sets of satellite images have been released of the Tsarap landslide in the Zanskar Valley of Northern India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":14379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,5,15,825,25,826],"class_list":["post-14378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-landslide-dam","tag-landslide-treport","tag-satellite","tag-south-asia-valley-blocking-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378","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=14378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}