{"id":18640,"date":"2016-05-13T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18640"},"modified":"2016-05-13T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:14:24","slug":"mont-granier-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/13\/mont-granier-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New landslide videos from the last few days, including an impressive rockfall at Mont Granier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18644\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18644\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18644\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Mont-Granier.jpg\" alt=\"Mont Granier\" width=\"326\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Mont-Granier.jpg 326w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Mont-Granier-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mont Granier rockfall via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uxs6mk50IdQ\">Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5>A large rockfall on Mont Granier<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mont_Granier\">Mont Granier<\/a> is located in the Chartreuse Mountains of the French Prealps.\u00a0 This was the site of an enormous landslide in 1248 that may have killed over a thousand people.\u00a0 In early January 2016 there was another substantial rock slope collapse on Mont Granier, and there has been at least one other event this year.\u00a0 Earlier this week, on 7th May,\u00a0 a further rockfall occurred, comprising a collapse of a limestone pillar.\u00a0 This event was captured on a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uxs6mk50IdQ\">video that is now on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uxs6mk50IdQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The site of this rockfall is captured rather nicely in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pYAyKIXVN3s\">video of the rockmass<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYAyKIXVN3s?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Not unusually, the rock mass is continuing to generate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mnA-7nOiolA\">small scale rockfall activity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mnA-7nOiolA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Le Dauphine has some nice images and a write-up (in French) of this event (along with some very irritating adverts). They suggest that this rockfall was similar in scale to the event of January 2016, with a volume of about 50,000 cubic metres, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francebleu.fr\/infos\/climat-environnement\/nouvel-eboulement-au-granier-1462605226\">other reports suggest<\/a> that the event in January was much larger, with a volume of about 170,000 cubic metres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>A landslide at Swimmer&#8217;s Delight in Humboldt County, California<\/h5>\n<p>A less spectacular, but nonetheless interesting landslide was also captured at Swimmer&#8217;s Delight in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldtgov.org\/Facilities\/Facility\/Details\/Van-Duzen-Pamplin-Grove-16\">Van Duzen County Par<\/a>k, Humboldt County in California last week.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/2016\/may\/9\/video-massive-landslide-collapses-van-duzen-river\/\">Lost Coast Outpost has a nice write up of this event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tower of rock and earth crashed into the Van Duzen River at one of Humboldt County\u2019s most popular swimming holes last week.\u00a0 A group of locals were able to capture the moment on their smartphones as they ate lunch on the riverbank of Swimmer\u2019s Delight at Van Duzen County Park in Fortuna last Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zK-IhoMeICg\">The video<\/a> is quite neat, especially the final, somewhat dynamic, event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zK-IhoMeICg?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I was relieved to see that none of the drinks were spilled.<\/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>Two new landslide videos have appeared on Youtube, including an impressive rockfall last weekend on Mont Granier in the French Prealps and a smaller collapse at Swimmer&#8217;s Delight in California<!-- 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":18644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137,144,469,274,959,963,725,48],"class_list":["post-18640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-california","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-france","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-north-america","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640","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=18640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}