{"id":15905,"date":"2015-08-26T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15905"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T17:06:17","slug":"artvin-turkey-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/08\/26\/artvin-turkey-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Artvin, Turkey: an excellent video of a landslide in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15909\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Artvin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15909\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15909\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Artvin-1.jpg\" alt=\"Artvin landslide\" width=\"594\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Artvin-1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Artvin-1-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artvin landslide via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haber3.com\/artvinde-sel-felaketi-foto-galerisi-45634-p12.htm\">Haber 3 website<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Artvin, Turkey landslides<\/h5>\n<p>Heavy rainfall in Artvin, Turkey has led to extensive flooding and landslides in the last few days.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/national_ill-devised-urbanization-exacerbates-costs-of-artvin-disaster_397459.html\">Today&#8217;s Zaman<\/a> reports that eight people were killed and a further two are missing.\u00a0 Landslides originating on the steep hills around the town seem to have been responsible for much of the loss.\u00a0 There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/htm\">nice gallery of images on the Haber 3 website<\/a>, from which the above image is taken.<\/p>\n<p>There is a very interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QIHIh1hod08\">video on Youtube of the event<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QIHIh1hod08?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Not much information is provided, and this is definitely a video that is worth viewing to the end as not much seems to be happening early on!.\u00a0 I would note that this a landslide that in many ways is similar to the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R2uTKyK1c9k\">Lantau debris flows in Hong Kong<\/a>, apparently starting as a smaller slip in weathered soil, and then transitioning into a highly mobile, highly destructive debris flow:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2uTKyK1c9k?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Given the number of people that were in the vicinity of the foot of the landslide, it is fortunate that the above landslide in particular landslide in Artvin was not a mass fatality disaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zUyAsVJS4Wg\">This video<\/a>, also taken in the same rainfall event, is less dramatic but also quite interesting.\u00a0 Again, watch to the end &#8211; those are very large boulders.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zUyAsVJS4Wg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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>Landslides in the Artvin area of NE Turkey have killed eight people and left two missing. 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