{"id":17263,"date":"2015-12-23T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=17263"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:05:36","slug":"shenzhen-landslide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/12\/23\/shenzhen-landslide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos of the Shenzhen landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17268\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/12\/15_12-China-9-e1450863743864.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/12\/15_12-China-9-e1450863743864.jpg\" alt=\"Shenzhen landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shenzhen landslide via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/photo\/2015-12\/21\/c_134937253_9.htm\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Videos of the Shenzhen landslide<\/h5>\n<p>As questions continue to be asked as to how the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/12\/22\/the-shenzhen-guangdong-landslide-a-massive-flowslide-in-construction-waste\/\">Shenzhen landslide<\/a>, which is now thought to have killed 76 people, can have been allowed to happen, I thought it would be interesting to post a collection of videos of the landslide.\u00a0 Remarkably, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2015-12\/23\/c_134944014_3.htm\">one survivor was recovered today<\/a>, and is expected to survive.\u00a0 Another man was recovered shortly afterwards, but died after being rescued.\u00a0 It is rare for people to be recovered from a landslide so long after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most dramatic footage is of buildings being impacted by the Shenzhen landslide and then collapsing.\u00a0 The relentless power of the landslide is quite notable:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQokWfO97BE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>A different view captures both the advance of the landslide and the explosion of the major gas pipeline that was ruptured by the landslide:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSc4HJ8f94Q?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AXLskdd-5MQ\">This video<\/a> captures additional footage of the exploding gas main and the landslide impacting the various buildings:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AXLskdd-5MQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen some discussion as to what this represents.\u00a0 I suspect it is simply that the pipeline had ruptured and a large volumes of gas was escaping.\u00a0 However, the landslide continued to move, so debris continually covered the ruptured pipe, causing the gas to burst through the sediment, creating this remarkable fountaining effect.<\/p>\n<p>And this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U61ScnYYAFw\">drone footage<\/a> shows the aftermath of the landslide.\u00a0 The only mercy here is that the slide occurred on a Sunday, when the buildings were probably less densely occupied.\u00a0 If it had occurred on a work day then the losses could have been much worse:-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U61ScnYYAFw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I remain intrigued by the material that forms this landslide.\u00a0 It has been repeatedly described as construction waste, but it is clearly not formed from demolished buildings.\u00a0 Indeed to me this looks to be excavated soil and weathered rock &#8211; take a look at the image below and the one at the top of the page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17265\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/12\/15_12-China-8-e1450863706957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/12\/15_12-China-8-e1450863706957.jpg\" alt=\"Shenzhen landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shenzhen landslide via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/photo\/2015-12\/21\/c_134937253_9.htm\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>If I was investigating this landslide I would want to identify the very large excavations that must be ongoing in the city, or the surrounding area, to generate this amount of spoil.\u00a0 Interestingly, it <a href=\"http:\/\/tunnelbuilder.com\/News\/Shenzhen-metro-lines-progress.aspx\">appears that Shenzhen is extending its underground light rail system at present<\/a>, with 87 km of new track. There has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/world\/2015\/12\/23\/one-man-pulled-alive-from-landslide-in-chinas-shenzhen--xinhua\/\">some speculation that the two events might be connected<\/a>, but I have no evidence at all to link them.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the very best collection of images that I have seen of the landslide are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com.au\/detail\/news-photo\/an-aerial-view-of-a-landslide-at-liuxi-industrial-park-on-news-photo\/502305120\">Getty News website<\/a>, including a stunning aerial image looking along the length of the landslide. \u00a0 I cannot reproduce the image here, but it is worth a look on their website.<\/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>I have pulled together a series of videos showing the Shenzhen landslide in Guangdong, China,  and its aftermath. <!-- 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":17268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,881,469,959,1020],"class_list":["post-17263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17263","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=17263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}