{"id":15022,"date":"2015-05-05T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2015-05-05T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:30:52","slug":"the-langtang-ice-and-rock-avalanche-in-the-gorkha-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-langtang-ice-and-rock-avalanche-in-the-gorkha-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Langtang ice and rock avalanche in the Gorkha Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Langtang ice and rock avalanche<\/h5>\n

Over the weekend the picture is slowly becoming clearer in terms of landslides associated with the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal<\/a>.\u00a0 It is now apparent that the level of landsliding in the Hill Districts at least is rather lower than we might have feared, although it is still far from insignificant.\u00a0 Understanding the situation in the higher mountains remains very challenging due to the amount of cloud cover that is still preventing satellite images from being available.\u00a0 We have to hope that a window opens up before the monsoon.<\/p>\n

So far the stand our landslide event appears to be the ice and rock avalanche at Langtang.\u00a0 This appears to have caused substantial loss of life.\u00a0 Not for the faint-hearted, this BBC report from the scene<\/a> leaves little to the imagination in terms of the likely losses.<\/p>\n

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