{"id":17002,"date":"2015-11-26T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=17002"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:09:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:09:32","slug":"debris-flow-of-ice-water-and-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/11\/26\/debris-flow-of-ice-water-and-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"A debris flow of ice, water and sand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A debris flow of ice, water and sand?<\/h5>\n<p>Just when you think you have seen it all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4XW6m1IWC8\">this pops up on Youtube<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4XW6m1IWC8?rel=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This event was apparently associated with the very heavy rainfall across the Middle East at the end of October and first half of December, <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=87011&amp;src=eoa-iotd\">as described by NASA<\/a>.\u00a0 This debris flow appears to have been the result of a very heavy hailstorm, but I know no more.\u00a0 A still from the video,suggests that there is a large concentration of hailstones in it:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17005\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-ice-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17005\" class=\"wp-image-17005 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-ice-1.jpg\" alt=\"A debris flow of ice, water and sand\" width=\"401\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-ice-1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/11\/15_11-ice-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A debris flow of ice, water and sand via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4XW6m1IWC8\">Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I have never heard of such a debris flow, but am no expert on processes in deserts.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know if it is for real, though it does not look fake on first inspection.\u00a0 Does anyone know more?<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RioParana\">Phil Ashworth on Twitter<\/a> for coming across this one.<\/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>A video has appeared on Youtube that appears to show a weird debris flow of ice, water and sand from the Middle East. Is it real?<!-- 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":17005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[57,1034,469,963,907],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-debris-flow","tag-desert","tag-featured","tag-landslide-video","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","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=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}