{"id":16898,"date":"2015-11-19T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T08:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=16898"},"modified":"2015-11-19T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T08:15:38","slug":"lefkada-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/11\/19\/lefkada-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefkada: dramatic landslides from the earthquake on 17th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Lefkada landslides<\/h5>\n<p>On Tuesday western Greece was affected by a shallow (depth = 14 km) M=6.5 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us10003ywp#general_summary\">earthquake centred close to Nidri<\/a>. \u00a0 This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/feed\/v1.0\/detail\/us10003ywp.kml\">USGS location<\/a> of the earthquake on Google Earth, with the intensity contours:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16902\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-1-e1447918856282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16902\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16902\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-1-e1447918856282.jpg\" alt=\"Lefkada\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us10003ywp#general_summary\">USGS epicentre and intensity contours<\/a> for the earthquake near Lefkada, plotted on Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest piece of land is the island of Lefkada.\u00a0 On the west coast of the island is a famously beautiful beach at Egremni:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16905\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-2-e1447919131138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16905\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16905\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-2-e1447919131138.jpg\" alt=\"Lefkada\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a The location of Egremni beach, plotted on Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/lefkada-loses-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches-in-earthquake-dramatic-before-and-after-images\/#prettyPhoto\">The Pappas Post<\/a> has a very nice article about landslides triggered by the earthquake that have affected the beach.\u00a0 This is the beach prior to the earthquake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pkostar\/4943201054\">from Flickr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16909\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-3-e1447919353307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16909\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16909\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-3-e1447919353307.jpg\" alt=\"Lefkada\" width=\"640\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egremni beach before the earthquake via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pkostar\/4943201054\">Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The landslides that affected Egremni Beach were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFnVY4cT2yM\">captured on a video by a fisherman<\/a> who was located on a boat just off the coast:-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFnVY4cT2yM?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath is a series of large landslides that have left very large volumes of debris on the beach.\u00a0 This oblique aerial shot, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/lefkada-loses-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches-in-earthquake-dramatic-before-and-after-images\/#prettyPhoto\">The Pappas Post,<\/a> shows the largest of the landslides (note the smaller ones at the top of the image too):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16910\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-4-e1447919747228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16910\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16910\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-4-e1447919747228.jpg\" alt=\"Lefkada\" width=\"524\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-4-e1447919747228.jpg 524w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-4-e1447919747228-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The major landslide on Egremni Beach on Lefkada, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/lefkada-loses-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches-in-earthquake-dramatic-before-and-after-images\/#prettyPhoto\">The Pappas Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And this image, also from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/lefkada-loses-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches-in-earthquake-dramatic-before-and-after-images\/#prettyPhoto\">The Papas Post<\/a>, shows the landslide from a more traditional near-vertical perspective:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16913\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-5-e1447919846758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16913\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16913\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-Lefkada-5-e1447919846758.jpg\" alt=\"Lefkada\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The major landslide on Egremni Beach on Lefkada, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/lefkada-loses-one-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-beaches-in-earthquake-dramatic-before-and-after-images\/#prettyPhoto\">The Pappas Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>If this earthquake had occurred on a summer day then there would have been a large number of fatalities on the beach at Lefkada, so in a sense this was very lucky escape.\u00a0 However, it is also likely that the debris from these landslides will take a long time to clear, such that Egremni Beach has been changed in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/strong-earthquake-hits-greek-island-of-lefkada\/2015\/11\/17\/7e775af2-8d02-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, there were two fatalities in the earthquake.\u00a0 One of these, a 69 year old woman, was killed by a rockfall that struck her house.<\/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>The M=6.5 earthquake off the coast of Lefkada in Greece on Tuesday induced dramatic landslides, caught on video, that have covered the famously beautiful Egremni Beach<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt 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