{"id":18657,"date":"2016-05-16T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2016-05-16T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T07:05:21","slug":"earthmover-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/16\/earthmover-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New videos for Monday morning: an earth mover get caught in a landslide and a debris flow from the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A new landslide video for Monday morning: a destroyed earthmover<\/h5>\n<p>To get the week going, this video has popped up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a4l9khAcg2M\">Youtube<\/a>.\u00a0 It shows an earthmover getting caught, and probably destroyed, in a landslide.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I have seen it before:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a4l9khAcg2M?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the landslide catches the earthmover gets struck the jib is moving, suggesting that the cab was occupied at this time of the landslide.\u00a0 There is no information in the video as to whether the operator survived the accident:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18658\" style=\"width: 637px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18658\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18658\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-1.jpg\" alt=\"earthmover\" width=\"627\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-1.jpg 627w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The backhoe being struck by a landslide, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a4l9khAcg2M\">Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5>And a spectacular debris flow from the Himalayas<\/h5>\n<p>This one was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FbZHVX-Cg4o\">Youtube last month<\/a> &#8211; thanks to Dr Phil Collins of Brunel (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilCollins_UK\">@PhilCollins_UK<\/a>) for highlighting this one via Twitter.\u00a0 There is no information as to the location:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FbZHVX-Cg4o?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a beautiful example of the way in which a debris flow can transport enormous boulders:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18661\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18661\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18661\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-2.jpg\" alt=\"A debris flow transporting large boulders in the Himalayas, via Youtube\" width=\"594\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-2.jpg 594w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Earth-Mover-2-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A debris flow transporting large boulders in the Himalayas, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FbZHVX-Cg4o\">Youtube<\/a><\/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>Two new videos have appeared on Youtube, one showing an earthmover destroyed by a landslide and the other a Himalayan debris flow<!-- 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":18661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1119,844,469,18,963,72],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-earthmover","tag-excavator","tag-featured","tag-himalayas","tag-landslide-video","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","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=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}