{"id":177,"date":"2010-04-07T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/07\/widespread-landslides-in-rio-de-janeiro-and-niteroi-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:54","slug":"widespread-landslides-in-rio-de-janeiro-and-niteroi-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/07\/widespread-landslides-in-rio-de-janeiro-and-niteroi-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread landslides in Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few days the city of Rio de Janeiro, and its twin city Niteroi just across the water, have been affected by extremely intense rainfall – a reported 288 mm in 24 hours.  The upshot has been a series of flash floods and landslides that have killed over 100 people so far.  More heavy rain is expected today.<\/p>\n

O Globo has produced an interactive map<\/a> of the Rio and Niteroi regions in which readers are invited to add information about their area.  This gives a first order estimate of the impacts of the rainfall:<\/p>\n

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Alagamento = flooding;
Lixo, lama e avores = garbage, mud and trees
Deslizamento = landslide
Postos de deocoes = Donation stations<\/p>\n

It appears that many of the slides have affected the shanty towns constructed on the hillsides around the cities.  Over the next few days I will try to collate a list of the major fatality inducing landslides, but for now
O Globo<\/a> has these two images of landslides that have affected residential areas:<\/p>\n

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Strangely, it is often a slightly abstract image that captures the horror of the event.  O Globo<\/a> also has this exceptionally powerful photograph:<\/p>\n

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Finally, it is interesting to note that this rainfall event appears not to have been captured by the TRMM landslide warning system<\/a>:<\/p>\n

24 hours of rainfall (the yellow circles indicate those areas considered to be at risk of landslides):<\/p>\n

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72 hours of rainfall (the yellow circles indicate those areas considered to be at risk of landslides):<\/a><\/div>\n

More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last few days the city of Rio de Janeiro, and its twin city Niteroi just across the water, have been affected by extremely intense rainfall – a reported 288 mm in 24 hours.  The upshot has been a series of flash floods and landslides that have killed over 100 people so far.  More heavy rain is expected today. O Globo has produced an interactive map of the Rio …<\/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":[102,123,959,121,122,120],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brazil","tag-city","tag-landslide-report","tag-shanty-town","tag-south-america","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}