{"id":15567,"date":"2015-07-20T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15567"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:49:11","slug":"kalimpong-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/07\/20\/kalimpong-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalimpong: Save the Hills has documented the fatal landslides of 30th June \/ 1st July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Kalimpong landslides<\/h5>\n<p>The torrential rainfall of 30th June \/ 1st July in Darjeeling, northern India triggered large numbers of landslides, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/07\/02\/darjeeling-1\/\">causing a substantial number of deaths<\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills blog<\/a> has set out to <a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/07\/landslides-in-kalimpong-pictoral-report.html\">document the landslides in the Kalimpong area<\/a>, an exceptionally useful achievement.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t intend to reproduce their report here, but will highlight a few aspects.\u00a0 First, they have produced a map of the landslides, and are willing to make the coordinates of them available:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15571\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-1-e1437377601275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15571\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15571\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-1-e1437377601275.jpg\" alt=\"Kalimpong\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is landslide number 1, which killed two people:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15573\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-2-e1437377776533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15573\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15573\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-2-e1437377776533.jpg\" alt=\"Kalimpong\" width=\"640\" height=\"914\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>These are other major landslides in Kalimpong:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15574\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-3-e1437377840848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15574\" class=\"wp-image-15574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-3-e1437377840848.jpg\" alt=\"Kalimpong\" width=\"640\" height=\"941\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15576\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-4-e1437377877667.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/07\/15_07-Kalimpong-4-e1437377877667.jpg\" alt=\"Kalimpong\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more images on the <a href=\"http:\/\/savethehills.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Save the Hills website<\/a>.\u00a0 I continue to share the view with Save the Hills that many of the landslides could be avoided with simple good management of the slopes.\u00a0 There is much to learn from elsewhere &#8211; this increase in losses from landslides in Darjeeling is both unnecessary and avoidable.<\/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 Save the Hills blog has documented the landslides that occurred in the Kalimpong area of Darjeeling, N India on 3th June \/ 1st July 2015<!-- 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":15576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[363,5,983,959,72],"class_list":["post-15567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-blog","tag-india","tag-landslide-images","tag-landslide-report","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15567","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=15567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}