{"id":18402,"date":"2016-04-20T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18402"},"modified":"2016-04-20T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:30:12","slug":"kumamoto-earthquakes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/04\/20\/kumamoto-earthquakes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of other landslides from the Kumamoto earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Images of other landslides from the Kumamoto earthquakes<\/h5>\n

In addition to the major, and well-publicised, landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes<\/a> this week (which I have featured in my previous posts<\/a>), there appears to be a substantial number of other major failures, many of them around the flanks of Mount Aso.\u00a0 There are images of these on the websites of Kokusai Kogyo<\/a> and Asia Air Survey<\/a>. In this post I seek to highlight some of the more interesting ones that have been photographed by Asia Air Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asia Air Survey<\/a> has a very clear image of the multiple landslides that formed the flow slide that I featured yesterday.\u00a0 These appear to be shallow slides in (probably) an volcanic deposit.\u00a0 Note the cracks in the slope on the left side of the image – this will be an area to watch in the forthcoming rainy season.<\/p>\n

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The area of shallow landslides responsible for the flow slide triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes featured yesterday, via Asia Air Survey<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Asia Air Survey<\/a> also has this fascinating image of three shallow landslides:<\/p>\n

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A pair of shallow landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes, via Asia Air Survey<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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There is a huge amount going on in this slope in addition to the two obvious, and one less obvious (on the counter-slope) landslides. There is extensive cracking on the ridge top, and in the upper part of the image on the main slope. Asia Air Survey<\/a> also has this image of a very extensive landslide system, including a large area of highly mobile debris movement:<\/p>\n

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Multiple landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes, via Asia Air Survey<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Note the very extensive slope cracking here as well, including a series if cracks that appear to run through the building on the ridge.\u00a0 I am intrigued as to whether this is a slope deformation or a tectonic crack – the position is unusual if it is the former.\u00a0 The largest landslide here has flowed into two different drainage systems.<\/p>\n

Finally, and perhaps most intriguingly, Asia Air Survey<\/a> have this image of a landslide system in the vicinity of what I assume is a hot spring system:<\/p>\n

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Multiple landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes around a hot spring area, via Asia Air Survey<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are signs here that the ground may have been altered (and probably weakened) by hydrothermal activity.\u00a0 The houses in this area will need careful assessment in light of the potential for further slope activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another set of high quality aerial images of several of the landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes in Japan, as photographed by Asia Air Survey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537,3],"tags":[23,881,469,361,1102,959],"class_list":["post-18402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","category-landslide-report","tag-earthquake","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-japan","tag-kumamoto-earthquake","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402","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=18402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}