{"id":16838,"date":"2015-11-16T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T08:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=16838"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T08:13:12","slug":"lidong-village-landslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/11\/16\/lidong-village-landslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lidong Village landslide in Zhejiang Province, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The Lidong Village landslide in China<\/h5>\n<p>Whilst for understandable reasons it barely registered on the international media radar, China suffered a major landslide on Friday night.\u00a0 The Lidong Village landslide, in Yaxi Township in Lishui, Zhejiang Province in East China occurred at about 10:50 pm on 13th November. \u00a0 At the time of writing 25 bodies have been recovered, with a further 12 missing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/visual\/hd\/2015\/11-15\/80575.shtml\">ecns.cn has the best photograph<\/a> of this very large landslide:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16842\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lidong-1-e1447658853937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16842\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lidong-1-e1447658853937.jpg\" alt=\"Lidong village landslide \" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lidong village landslide via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/visual\/hd\/2015\/11-15\/80575.shtml\">ecns.cn<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this image the Lidong Village landslide appears to be a large rock and soil slide, mostly formed from deeply weathered rock (I cannot see any unweathered rock in the scar).\u00a0 The slide looks to be quite complex with a number of shear surfaces.\u00a0 Of particular interest is the grid work in the upper part of the main debris accumulation.\u00a0 This is almost certainly slope protection, perhaps soil nails or rock bolts, suggesting that the slope was known to have stability issues\u00a0 The lack of large numbers of trees on the slope suggests to me that the slope had been cleared.\u00a0 However, it is unlikely that the slope protection that us visible was designed to stabilise a failure as large and deep as evidently occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Note also that in the bottom left corner of the image the highway has a rock shelter to protect against instability on a cut slope.<\/p>\n<p>The image below, also from ecns,cn, shows rescuers working through the accumulation of debris.\u00a0 Note that the slope protection is visible in the top corner of the image:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16845\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lidong-2-e1447659813922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16845\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16845\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lidong-2-e1447659813922.jpg\" alt=\"Lidong Village landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lidong Village landslide via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/visual\/hd\/2015\/11-15\/80575.shtml\">ecns.cn<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2015-11\/15\/c_134818576.htm\">Xinhua reports<\/a> that the area was suffering very heavy rainfall at the time of the landslide.\u00a0 As yet there seems to be little online that asks questions as to why this landslide occurred.\u00a0 It is not obvious to me that the road should have disrupted the tow of the landslide, which was on a slope on the other side of a small river.\u00a0 I would be very interested to see an image of this site before the Lidong Village landslide occurred, but as yet have not been able to identify a location.<\/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>On Friday night the Lidong Village landslide in Zhejiang Province, China killed at least 25 people.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt 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