{"id":18532,"date":"2016-05-02T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18532"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:54:54","slug":"kyrgyzstan-loess-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/02\/kyrgyzstan-loess-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"The location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, as caught on that amazing video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide<\/h5>\n<p>The mainstream media has not really caught up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/01\/landslide-loess-kyrgyzstan\/\">Kyrgyzstan loess landslide<\/a> as yet (it is only a matter of time I suspect &#8211; it has to be worth a shock-horror headlline in the Daily Mail, surely?), although a news report is now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cihan.com.tr\/en\/kyrgystan-landslide-almaluu-bulak-village-jalalabad-2054764.htm\">Cihan website<\/a>.\u00a0 Sadly it provides no additional information.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mB6x18IzUJA\">As a reminder this is the video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mB6x18IzUJA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mB6x18IzUJA\">The original text on Youtube described the location as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Uch-Chat Pasture located nearby the village of Almaluu-Bulak in Jalal-Abad region&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google Maps locates Almaluu-Bulak at 41.144 N, 73.022 W.\u00a0 On that basis I think the most likely location is shown in the Google Earth image below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18547\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18547\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/Slide2-e1462177840398.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan loess landslide \" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyrgyzstan loess landslide location, via Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The valley that best seems to fit the video is this one, also from Google Earth:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18549\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18549\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/Slide3-e1462177990381.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan loess landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The valley that possibly generated the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, via Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If so I believe that this would be the slope that generated the landslide.\u00a0 Note the small slip in the lower part of the slope, and the other adjacent landslides (of which more below):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18551\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/Slide4-e1462178148512.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan loess landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The slope that may have generated the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, via Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This little corner of Kyrgyzstan has an extraordinary range of landslides.\u00a0 This is a Google Earth image of the wider area.\u00a0 The valley containing the most recent landslide is in the upper left corner of the image:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18543\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18543\" class=\"wp-image-18543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_04-Kyrgyzstan-1-e1462178618697.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan loess landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_04-Kyrgyzstan-1-e1462178618697.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_04-Kyrgyzstan-1-e1462178618697-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The area around the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, via Google Earth. Note the extraordinary range of landslides in this area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst some of these landslides seem to have had a high level of mobility, they do not appear to have been as mobile as the one last week.\u00a0 In the next valley over lies the set of landslides shown below.\u00a0 The one in the centre of the image has also shown a very high level of mobility.\u00a0 Note the house built right in the middle of the landslide deposit, which goes beyond the road.\u00a0 The smaller landslide on the left has also moved a significant distance:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18553\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18553\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18553\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_04-Kyrgyzstan-8-e1462178582893.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgyzstan loess landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High levels of mobility demonstrated by other landslides close to the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, via Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Google Earth it is possible to track down the location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide. 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