{"id":144,"date":"2010-05-09T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/09\/the-landslide-at-attabad-new-videos-of-the-spillways-and-the-drowning-land-upstream\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:44","slug":"the-landslide-at-attabad-new-videos-of-the-spillways-and-the-drowning-land-upstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/09\/the-landslide-at-attabad-new-videos-of-the-spillways-and-the-drowning-land-upstream\/","title":{"rendered":"The landslide at Attabad &#8211; new videos of the spillways and the drowning land upstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\">Please click here for the most recent update <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\">on  the Attabad landslide<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\"> <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The lake behind the landslide at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/inflow-to-landslide-lake-at-attabad.html\">Attabad in Hunza<\/a>, Pakistan <a href=\"http:\/\/hunzalandslide.blogspot.com\/\">continues to fill<\/a>, meaning that we are probably only a fortnight or so away from the maximum point.&nbsp; I have not had an update from either NDMA or FOCUS for 48 hours, so am unsure as to how things have developed in the last two days.&nbsp; However, The Pamir Times has tonight posted three videos on Youtube that are worth watching.&nbsp; The first shows the spillway on 8th May:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hunza Disaster, Progress at Spillway.wmv\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SoRHfbWm9BM?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>This shows just how close to the top of the dam the water level has now reached.  The second and third show the impact of the rapidly rising water level:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shishkat PT.mov\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3c4kVISdx8?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gulmit PT.mov\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5kgA22a3gZk?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>The sight of people destroying their own homes to recover building materials is pretty dreadful.&nbsp; Remember that most people in this area live on the basis of cash crops, and that their only real assets are their buildings, their land and their crops.&nbsp; For this reason, regardless of what happens at the spillway, the Attabad landslide is a disaster for the people of Gojal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\">Please  click here for the most recent update <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\">on   the Attabad landslide<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/likelihood-of-flood-from-attabad.html\"> <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please click here for the most recent update on the Attabad landslide The lake behind the landslide at Attabad in Hunza, Pakistan continues to fill, meaning that we are probably only a fortnight or so away from the maximum point.&nbsp; I have not had an update from either NDMA or FOCUS for 48 hours, so am unsure as to how things have developed in the last two days.&nbsp; However, The &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-144","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\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}