{"id":18249,"date":"2016-04-07T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18249"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:30:08","slug":"three-new-landslide-videos-two-dashcam-films-from-china-and-a-video-from-gns-about-earthquake-triggered-rockfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/04\/07\/three-new-landslide-videos-two-dashcam-films-from-china-and-a-video-from-gns-about-earthquake-triggered-rockfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new landslide videos &#8211; two dashcam films from China, two rockfall films and a video from GNS about earthquake triggered failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Three new landslide videos &#8211; two dashcam films from China and a video from GNS about earthquake triggered rockfalls<\/h5>\n<h6>1. A dashcam film of a large landslide from China:<\/h6>\n<p>This video has been around for a few weeks now.\u00a0 It is a very impressive large landslide, caught by a dashcam camera.\u00a0 There is no more information on either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=USBpsvjoONg\">Youtube <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=ec7_1458353918\">Liveleak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/USBpsvjoONg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h6>2. A dashcam video of a landslide near to Guilin in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi, China<\/h6>\n<p>There is a little more information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2216ZnWYsgw\">about this one<\/a>.\u00a0 It is less dramatic, but still interesting.\u00a0 The driver was clearly rather wise in choosing not to proceed and pick his\/her way around the rocks in the road.\u00a0 This illustrates one of the hidden perils &#8211; the precursory falls cause vehicles to slow down, which means they are in danger for much longer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2216ZnWYsgw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The full description from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2216ZnWYsgw\">Youtube<\/a> is as follows:-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Torrential rain over the Qingming Festival three-day weekend has triggered landslides in south China\u2019s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Footage shot by a car\u2019s dashcam shows the moment a landslide took place on an expressway in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County on Monday. Realizing the danger of the situation ahead, the car driver and a passing van stopped just in time and hurriedly reversed their vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6>3. What is it like to be caught in a rockfall?<\/h6>\n<p>The answer is truly terrifying.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LRKxHuQiukU\">This was published on Youtube on 30th March<\/a>.\u00a0 It occurred in Ancash, Huaraz in Peru:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRKxHuQiukU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This could have had a terrible ending.<\/p>\n<h6>4. A big toppling failure from India<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LRKxHuQiukU\">This apparently happened<\/a> in the Pangi Valley in Himachal, India.\u00a0 There is no time stamp:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKLFudtDkoU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h6>And finally, a video from GNS Science about their response to the most recent Christchurch earthquake<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yRFq-nzyhNw\">This is a very nice video<\/a> about how Geonet \/ GNS Science responded to the Valentines Day earthquake in Christchurch.\u00a0 The first part of the film features the rockfall team, including my friend and former student, Chris Massey.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRFq-nzyhNw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/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>This post features 5 new landslide videos, including two dashcam videos from China, a terrifying rockfall video from Peru, a toppling failure from India &#038; a feature on the GNS earthquake response<!-- 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":17113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16,1092,5,963,7],"class_list":["post-18249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-china","tag-dashcam","tag-india","tag-landslide-video","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249","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=18249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}