{"id":173,"date":"2010-04-09T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/09\/the-location-of-the-morro-do-bumba-landslide-in-niteroi-brazil\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:54","slug":"the-location-of-the-morro-do-bumba-landslide-in-niteroi-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/09\/the-location-of-the-morro-do-bumba-landslide-in-niteroi-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The location of the Morro do Bumba landslide in Niteroi, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a video posted on the BBC website<\/a>, I have managed to locate the Niteroi landslide<\/a>, which is a garbage dump slide<\/a> that is believed to have killed over 200 people.  The slide is at the following coordinates:  22.893\u00b0 S, -43.085\u00b0W<\/p>\n

On a Google Earth image this area looks like this:<\/p>\n

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 A zoomed in view looks like this (the crown of the landslide is at the bottom of the image):<\/p>\n

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Thus, a perspective view of the landslide looks like this (looking from the toe towards the crown):<\/p>\n

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It is clear that a large number of houses have been destroyed.  Google Earth measurements suggest that the slide is about 300 metres long and 50-70 metres wide.    It is interesting that most of the crown appears to be located at a road (see the screenshot from the video below) – which might suggest that drainage was an issue in the causation of the failure:<\/p>\n

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The description of the slide as an old garbage dump is certainly correct judging by this image from O Globo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The likelihood of surviving burial in a garbage landslide is very low given the density of the material, the release of methane gas and in some cases the release of heat from the decaying material – see my earlier post here on the hazards posed by garbage dump landslides<\/a>.  Needless to say the recovery and clean up operation will be both very difficult and very unpleasant for those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a video posted on the BBC website, I have managed to locate the Niteroi landslide, which is a garbage dump slide that is believed to have killed over 200 people.  The slide is at the following coordinates:  22.893\u00b0 S, -43.085\u00b0W On a Google Earth image this area looks like this:  A zoomed in view looks like this (the crown of the landslide is at the bottom of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,118,959,119],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brazil","tag-garbage","tag-landslide-report","tag-niteroi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}