{"id":17689,"date":"2016-02-03T07:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=17689"},"modified":"2016-02-03T07:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T07:47:47","slug":"muothatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/02\/03\/muothatal\/","title":{"rendered":"New landslide videos: Aconcagua (again), Muothatal and Pacifica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Another debris flow on Aconcagua<\/h5>\n<p>Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/01\/24\/the-greatest-ever-debris-flow-video-aconcagua\/\">I blogged about a debris flow video on Aconcagua in Argentina<\/a>.\u00a0 It turns out there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yR82i8eWvDg\">another video of an earlier debris flow<\/a>, collected on 26th December 2015:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yR82i8eWvDg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The text associated with the video, which was shot by Kyle Peterson, is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I shot this video Dec 26, 2015 and our group nearly got caught in a rock\/mudslide hiking out of Horcones Valley after summitting Aconcagua the previous day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video beautifully illustrates that dry nature of these types of flow, even though they look wet.\u00a0 Look at the amount of dust the flow is generating as the dry rocks scrape along the walls of the channel:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17690\" style=\"width: 647px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17690\" class=\"wp-image-17690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/02\/16_02-Aconcagua-1.jpg\" alt=\"Muothatal\" width=\"637\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/02\/16_02-Aconcagua-1.jpg 637w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/02\/16_02-Aconcagua-1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 26th December 2015 debris flow on Aconcagua in Argentina. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yR82i8eWvDg\">Youtube video<\/a> collected by Kyle Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be very interested to know the source of these debris flows.<\/p>\n<h5>A fascinating landslide at Muothatal in Switzerland<\/h5>\n<p>Meanwhile, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KCCV9P3ZHo\">amazing landslide<\/a> was apparently triggered by a combination of rain and snow at Muothatal in Switzerland:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KCCV9P3ZHo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5>Drone footage of coastal erosion at Pacifica<\/h5>\n<p>Repeated El Nino storms have driven more rapid erosion on the bluffs at Pacifica in central North California.\u00a0 The resultant erosion appears to be condemning a number of buildings, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7eGj4TTS-k\">very impressive drone footage<\/a> shows:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7eGj4TTS-k?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Three new landslide videos, including a debris flow from Aconcagua, an earthflow from Muothatal in Switzerland and coastal erosion in Pacifica<!-- 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":17690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1051,137,57,144,469,963,725,1060,122,444,48],"class_list":["post-17689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-argentina","tag-california","tag-debris-flow","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-landslide-video","tag-north-america","tag-pacifica","tag-south-america","tag-switzerland","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689","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=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}