{"id":18130,"date":"2016-03-27T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2016-03-27T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:15:25","slug":"samarco-tailings-dam-failure-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/03\/27\/samarco-tailings-dam-failure-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable new footage of the mudflow from the Samarco tailings dam failure in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Remarkable new footage of the Samarco tailings dam failure in Brazil<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O7l7OSFyP2w\">An amazing new video has appeared on Youtube<\/a> showing the mudflow that was released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/11\/08\/samarco-1\/\">Samarco tailings dam failure<\/a> in Brazil on 15th November 2015.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/11\/12\/samarco-dam-1\/\">I covered this event at the time<\/a>, and investigations continue into the cause and blame.\u00a0 This video is accompanied by some text in Portuguese.\u00a0 Google Translate, with some edits by me, renders this as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">In an unprecedented <span class=\"\">video posted by<\/span> one of the witnesses of the tragedy on a social network can be seen <span class=\"\">the strength of<\/span> brown mudflow that came down from the mountains, reaching and destroying <span class=\"\">communities<\/span> and all that was ahead. The desperation is of the three <span class=\"\">people who were close<\/span> to Bento Rodrigues, Mariana district of Minas Gerais Central Region<span class=\"\">, which was<\/span> devastated by mud tailings\u00a0 from the Fund\u00e3o dam, on <span class=\"\">November 5, 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7l7OSFyP2w?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Although quite distant, the extraordinary pace and power of the mudflow is clearly apparent:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18134\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18134\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/03\/16_03-Samarco-1-e1459064905565.jpg\" alt=\"Samarco tailings dam failure\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the new Youtube video of the Samarco tailings dam failure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a video that all people responsible for designing and managing tailings dams should view.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the enormous cost of this event is becoming more apparent.\u00a0 BHP Biliton, co-owner of Samarco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhpbilliton.com\/investors\/samarco\/english\">has produced a website<\/a> that outlines the work that they are undertaking in the aftermath of the disaster. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/03\/11\/bhp-billitons-disaster-hit-mine-samarco-to-reopen-by-end-of-year\/\">The Telegraph reports<\/a> that the mine will reopen towards the end of the calendar year, with the tailings being stored in two pits whilst the dam is rebuilt. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/jornal-nacional\/noticia\/2016\/03\/lama-da-samarco-no-fundo-do-mar-muda-vida-marinha-na-foz-do-rio-doce.html\">O Globo reports<\/a> (in Portuguese) that the tailings are damaging the ecosystem at the mouth of the Rio Doce, down which the mudflow travelled,\u00a0 Meanwhile, sales of fish in Colatina are <a href=\"http:\/\/g1.globo.com\/espirito-santo\/desastre-ambiental-no-rio-doce\/noticia\/2016\/03\/medo-de-lama-da-samarco-faz-venda-de-peixe-cair-em-colatina-es.html\">reported to have fallen<\/a> as people are worried that they might have come from the polluted waters of the Rio Doce.<\/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 new video has appeared on Youtube showing the remarkable mudflow released by the Samarco Tailings dam failure in Brazil in 2015<!-- 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":18134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[102,469,963,1025,122,230],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-brazil","tag-featured","tag-landslide-video","tag-samarco","tag-south-america","tag-tailings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","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=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}