{"id":149,"date":"2010-05-06T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/06\/accelerating-rate-of-filling-at-the-attabad-landslide-in-hunza-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:44","slug":"accelerating-rate-of-filling-at-the-attabad-landslide-in-hunza-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/06\/accelerating-rate-of-filling-at-the-attabad-landslide-in-hunza-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating rate of filling at the Attabad landslide in Hunza, Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of inflow at the Attabad landslide has now started to increase appreciably as warming and snowmelt really get underway.&nbsp; The graph below shows the daily rate of water increase, using data from the Focus measurements (the daily data are available on my monitoring website):<\/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-water-level-rise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-water-level-rise.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The rate of increase for the last two days with data has been 89 cm per day.&nbsp; At that rate the water will overtop on about 24th May, although clearly there remains considerable uncertainty around this date.&nbsp; It is unlikely that we have yet achieved maximum inflow rate, so the date could easily move forward again.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday the remaining freeboard was just 17.64 metres, as this Pamir Times image from a couple of days ago shows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-spillway-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_05-spillway-3.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just above the boats you will see that there is a small terrace on the landslide deposit.&nbsp; This is the water level point at which I recommended in my report that should trigger the move to an increased alert state.&nbsp; We should now start to see an increase in seepage rate as the thickness of the landslide barrier decreases markedly.<\/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 inflow at the Attabad landslide has now started to increase appreciably as warming and snowmelt really get underway.&nbsp; The graph below shows the daily rate of water increase, using data from the Focus measurements (the daily data are available on my monitoring website): The rate of increase for the last two days with data has been 89 cm per day.&nbsp; At that rate the water will overtop &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":[967,58,15,10],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attabad","tag-hunza","tag-landslide-dam","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}