{"id":16102,"date":"2015-09-11T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=16102"},"modified":"2015-09-11T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:37:57","slug":"weare-cliffs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/09\/11\/weare-cliffs-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Weare Cliffs in Dorset &#8211; rockfall video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Weare Cliffs in Dorset<\/h5>\n<p>Earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/09\/08\/portland-progressive-failure-1\/\">I posted about an ongoing landslide problem<\/a> at on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England, in which a progressive slope failure is causing repeated rockfalls and the development of tension cracks and ground disturbance.\u00a0 The coastal footpath has had to be rerouted, and members of the public are being warned to keep away.\u00a0 This morning several news agencies in the UK (e.g. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3229128\/Gone-40-seconds-Incredible-video-captures-terrifying-moment-cliff-face-collapses-disappears-huge-cloud-dust.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>) are running with a video of the collapse of a section of cliff at Weare Cliffs:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ysPXNqV_4Zo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course as this is the Daily Mail this is &#8220;the terrifying moment a cliff face collapses and disappears in a huge cloud of dust&#8221;. However, the article does provide some useful background.\u00a0 The video was collected by Sam Haskins.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3229128\/Gone-40-seconds-Incredible-video-captures-terrifying-moment-cliff-face-collapses-disappears-huge-cloud-dust.html\">Daily Mail article<\/a> notes that:-<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Haskins, who was on a walk with his girlfriend, Bethany, said he had decided to visit the area as there had been a number of reports that the footpath had started to break away.\u00a0 &#8216;We&#8217;d heard there had been several small rock falls over the last few days and there were very large cracks appearing in the path and cliff face,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My interpretation is that this is a rockfall at the front of the much larger progressively failing landslide block. As the topple develops (see image below) there is considerable rockfall activity.\u00a0 The block fragments after the collapse event.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16105\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/09\/15_09-Portland-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16105\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/09\/15_09-Portland-4.jpg\" alt=\"Weare Cliffs\" width=\"306\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/09\/15_09-Portland-4.jpg 306w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/09\/15_09-Portland-4-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weare Cliffs rockfall &#8211; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3229128\/Gone-40-seconds-Incredible-video-captures-terrifying-moment-cliff-face-collapses-disappears-huge-cloud-dust.html\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/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>In Dorset, Southern England a dramatic rock topple on the progressive landslide at Weare Cliffs has been captured on video by a local fisherman  <!-- 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":16105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,29],"tags":[183,458,963,547,56,540,133],"class_list":["post-16102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coast-2","category-landslide-video","tag-coast","tag-dorset","tag-landslide-video","tag-progressive-failure","tag-rockfall","tag-topple","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102","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=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}