{"id":15121,"date":"2015-05-19T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15121"},"modified":"2015-05-19T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:42:24","slug":"salgar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/05\/19\/salgar-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Salgar, Antioquia, Colombia: a landslide killed at least 63 people yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Salgar, Antioquia, Colombia<\/h5>\n<p>Early yesterday morning, a landslide struck the small town of Salgar in Antioquia, Colombia.\u00a0 Latest reports (in Spanish) are that at least 63 people were killed.\u00a0 At least 37 people have been injured and an unknown number are missing.<\/p>\n<p>The event appears to have been a debris flow, triggered by heavy rainfall, that tore through the small town in the floor of the valley.\u00a0 Although the exact location of this event is not yet clear, the Salgar area is characterised by villages lying in the floor of valleys in quite steep upland areas:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15122\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-Salgar-1-e1432017022216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15122\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15122\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-Salgar-1-e1432017022216.jpg\" alt=\"Salgar\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Images from the scene &#8211; there is a good gallery on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/multimedia\/fotos\/colombia6\/emergencia-en-salgar-antioquia-por-desbordamiento-de-quebrada\/15774576\">El Tiempo website<\/a> &#8211; suggest that the flow may have been rapid and catastrophic:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15123\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-Salgar-2-e1432017199870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/05\/15_05-Salgar-2-e1432017199870.jpg\" alt=\"Salgar\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/multimedia\/fotos\/colombia6\/emergencia-en-salgar-antioquia-por-desbordamiento-de-quebrada\/15774576\">El Tiempo<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>A debris flow at Salgar in Antioquia in Colombia yesterday killed at least 63 people and left an unknown number missing<!-- 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":15123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[359,57,469,122],"class_list":["post-15121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-colombia","tag-debris-flow","tag-featured","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121","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=15121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}