{"id":18345,"date":"2016-04-18T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18345"},"modified":"2016-04-18T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:18:54","slug":"kumamoto-earthquake-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/04\/18\/kumamoto-earthquake-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides from the Kumamoto earthquake in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landslides from the Kumamoto earthquake in Japan<\/h5>\n

The Kumamoto earthquake, the second of the two significant earthquakes that Japan over the last three days, and the associated aftershocks, appears to have generated significant numbers of landslides.\u00a0 Experience tells us that the area most affected by earthquake-induced landslides will be the terrain with significant slopes that has a high concentration of aftershocks.\u00a0 The largest landslide seems to be a very substantial slope failure close to Mimami-Aso that destroyed an important bridge.\u00a0 Asia One<\/a> has a quite beautiful image of this landslide:<\/p>\n

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A landslide triggered by the Kumamoto earthquake, via Asia One<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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This appears to be a large rockslide in weathered rock.\u00a0 Note that the crown extends almost to the ridge, which is common in earthquake induced landslides.\u00a0 This landslide must have deposited a large volume of material in the gorge.\u00a0 Note also that the other slopes along the gorge have failed too, as this AP image<\/a> shows.\u00a0 There is a reasonably large landslide towards the left side of the image that has come close to destroying another bridge:<\/p>\n

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A landslide triggered bu the Kumamoto earthquake, via AP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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However, this is by no means the only landslide. \u00a0 AFP<\/a> have an image of a landslide that appears to have caused serious damage to the Kurowa Dai-ichi power station:<\/p>\n

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Damage to the Kurokawa Dai-ichi Power Station caused by the Kumamoto earthquake, via AFP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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There are also some images of a quite peculiar and deeply intriguing flowslide.\u00a0 AP<\/a> have this image of the debris in the fields:<\/p>\n

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A flowslide triggered by the Kumamoto earthquake, via AP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Whilst the BBC has some nice video footage of it<\/a>.\u00a0 There seems to be quite a large amount of landslide damage to roads.\u00a0 This appears to be a major cutslope failure:<\/p>\n

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A major cutslope failure on the Oita Expressway, triggered by the Kumamoto Earthquake, via AP<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Other road damage seems to have been caused by the failure of fill slopes:<\/p>\n

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Road damage caused by the Kumomata earthquake via Asia One<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Highway damage caused by the Kumomata Earthquake, via Asia One<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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If you have links to further images please post them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kumamoto earthquake in Japan appears to have triggered a large number of landslides. This post provides some images of some of the larger landslides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[23,881,469,361,983,588],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-earthquake","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-japan","tag-landslide-images","tag-seismic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345","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=18345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}