The best new information comes in the form of a gallery of photographs from China Foto Press<\/a> that are being distributed by Getty Images<\/a>.\u00a0 As these are commercial images I will show just one here, simply because it provides so much insight into the Shanyang landslide:<\/p>\n China Foto Press<\/a> via Getty Images<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n This image appears to show the source area of the landslide in the centre background, in which an entire section of ridge seems to have collapsed.\u00a0 I think that the rocks dip in the direction of initial sliding, perhaps suggesting that this is a dipslope failure?\u00a0 The landslide appears to have been quite mobile, turning through 90 degrees.\u00a0 Movement appears to have ceased when the landslide impacted another valley wall.<\/p>\n Eye witness reports suggest that the survivors ran up the valley to escape the landslide.\u00a0 Those who ran down the valley were reportedly hit by the Shanyang landslide.\u00a0 This would make sense if they were located near to the toe of the initial failure as movement started.<\/p>\n There is a notable lack of debris from buildings in the image, suggesting that the structures were completely buried.\u00a0 I am unsure as to whether the crushed car in the bottom left of this image was associated with the Shenyang landslide or is left from an earlier event.<\/p>\n Nothing here changes my view that, although I cannot comment on this specific case, there is evidence that slopes are being inadequately managed in some mines in China.\u00a0 Dipslope failures are a well-known hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new image has emerged of the Shanyang landslide in China, which appears to have been a complex dipslope failure triggered by mining. 65 people are missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":15792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,881,469,299,205],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-mine","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","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=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shanyang](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Shaanxi-3-e1439480773479.jpg\")
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