{"id":16333,"date":"2015-10-01T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=16333"},"modified":"2015-10-01T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T07:06:23","slug":"kothmale-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/10\/01\/kothmale-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Kothmale landslide in Sri Lanka: drone footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Kothmale landslide<\/h5>\n<p>On 25th September 2015 a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall fit the village of Kothmale (sometimes spelt Kotmale) in Sri Lanka, killing seven people.\u00a0 There is good quality drone footage of the landslide in the first part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?filters=week&amp;search_query=landslide&amp;page=7\">this video on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GbqvNtQQo84?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And there is also some good ground based footage of the landslide in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtMClmMXsyc\">this video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtMClmMXsyc?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a screenshot from one of the videos of the landslide Kothmale:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16335\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16335\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale.jpg\" alt=\"Kothmale landslide \" width=\"511\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale.jpg 511w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kothmale landslide via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GbqvNtQQo84\">Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this the source area from the same video:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16339\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16339\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16339\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale-2.jpg\" alt=\"Kothmale landslide \" width=\"504\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale-2.jpg 504w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/10\/15_10-Kothmale-2-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kothmale landslide via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GbqvNtQQo84\">Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The main landslide appears to be a slip of a very thin layer of soil \/ regolith on a very steep bedrock interface.\u00a0 Note the soil layer at the top of the slope &#8211; it is possible that the slide started here and then entrained the regolith below.\u00a0 The landslide then appears to have turned into an open hillslope debris flow that has emtrained soil as it has passed through the tea garden.\u00a0 Sadly the houses in Kothmale were in the direct path of the flow, and would have offered little protection to the occupants.<\/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>Drone footage is now available of the interesting Kothmale landslide in Sri Lanka, which killed seven people on 25th September 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":16335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[57,469,959,146,82,35],"class_list":["post-16333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","category-landslide-video","tag-debris-flow","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-s-asia","tag-sri-lanka","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333","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=16333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}