{"id":160,"date":"2010-04-25T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/25\/a-huge-landslide-on-freeway-no-3-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:50","slug":"a-huge-landslide-on-freeway-no-3-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/25\/a-huge-landslide-on-freeway-no-3-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge landslide on Freeway No.3 in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taiwan today suffered an extraordinary landslide in Highway number 3, which links Taipei with Keelung.   The landslide appears to have completely buried the road for a distance of about 300 m.  The depth of burial looks to be more than 10 m.  There are reports that there were a number of cars on the road at the time – if so, the chances of survival are slim.<\/p>\n

At the moment the available pictures of this event are poor – no doubt much better ones will emerge tomorrow as this will be a very big story in Taiwan.  The best I have been able to find so far are these picture from TVBS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There is also a youtube video of a news report from the slide site, which you should be able to view below:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_rH6-QTHvmI<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare the video above with this image of the site before failure to get an idea of just how large this slide is:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, there was no recorded rainfall or earthquakes at the time of the collapse.  The mechanism and nature of the failure will be very interesting.<\/p>\n

I have been arguing for some time<\/a> that Taiwan needs to start managing its slopes better<\/a>.  Will this finally see the authorities take some action?<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Chingying Tsou of Kyoto University for pointing this one out and providing the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taiwan today suffered an extraordinary landslide in Highway number 3, which links Taipei with Keelung.   The landslide appears to have completely buried the road for a distance of about 300 m.  The depth of burial looks to be more than 10 m.  There are reports that there were a number of cars on the road at the time – if so, the chances of survival are slim. At the moment …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,959,27,81],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-highway","tag-landslide-report","tag-road","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}