{"id":18147,"date":"2016-03-28T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2016-03-28T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T08:11:25","slug":"a-terrifying-video-of-shooting-rocks-from-the-karakorum-highway-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/03\/28\/a-terrifying-video-of-shooting-rocks-from-the-karakorum-highway-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"A terrifying video of two coaches trapped by &#8220;shooting rocks&#8221; in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A terrifying video of &#8220;shooting rocks&#8221; from the Karakorum Highway in Pakistan<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxQctYRL7ow\">Youtube has an amazing and terrifying video<\/a> of two coaches trapped by &#8220;shooting rocks&#8221; &#8211; very high velocity rockfalls &#8211; on the Karakorum Highway in Pakistan.\u00a0 These boulders, some of which are very large, have managed to get into the high velocity, bouncing mode that is so dangerous:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dxQctYRL7ow?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly impressive is the boulder at the 28 second point, shown below.\u00a0 This boulder has entered the mode of movement in which it is rotating around its short axis, allowing very large bounces and high velocities to develop.\u00a0 It is a good thing this did not strike the coaches:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18151\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18151\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18151\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/03\/16_03-Karakorum-1-e1459152159712.jpg\" alt=\"Shooting rocks on the Karakorum Highway\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shooting rocks on the Karakorum Highway, via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxQctYRL7ow\">Youtube video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear as to where this occurred on the Karakorum Highway, but fortunately there were no casualties.\u00a0 It must have been terrifying for those on the buses though.<\/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 terrifying video has appeared on Youtube showing two buses trapped by &#8220;shooting rocks&#8221; on the Karakorum Highway in Pakistan<!-- 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":18151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[469,959,963,10,56,72],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-pakistan","tag-rockfall","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","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=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}