{"id":18767,"date":"2016-05-21T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2016-05-21T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:56:40","slug":"aranayake-landslide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/21\/aranayake-landslide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New landslide video: the mobility of the Aranayake landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The mobility of the Aranayake landslide<\/h5>\n<p>An technically interesting aspect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/05\/19\/aranayake-1\/\">Aranayake landslide tragedy<\/a> in Sri Lanka is the high levels of mobility that the debris has obviously shown.\u00a0 It is this mobility that has allowed the debris to travel so far, and of course so fast, which in combination is the reasons for so many fatalities.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6g3m8oMozs\">A video has been posted on Youtube<\/a> showing a very small secondary failure of the landslide mass:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6g3m8oMozs?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This failure is only a few cubic metres, a minute fraction of the devastating landslide of earlier this week.\u00a0 But its behaviour illustrates the problem beautifully.\u00a0 At the start of the video the failure is clearly just a standard small-scale landslide:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18769\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18769\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Aranayake-1-e1463816351554.jpg\" alt=\"Aranayake landslide \" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6g3m8oMozs\">Youtube video<\/a> of a secondary failure at the Aranayake landslide site<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>However, this quickly transitions into a highly fluid, very mobile mass:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18773\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18773\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/05\/16_05-Aranayake-2-e1463816504293.jpg\" alt=\"Aranayake landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6g3m8oMozs\">Aranyake landslide video<\/a> showing the highly mobile landslide mass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>One can only imagine what this must have looked like when the whole slope was on the move.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan army today ceased its operations to rescue landslide victims, and instead turned to a recovery and relief mission.\u00a0 However, in a deeply surreal move, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignewsnetwork.com\/news\/244261757\/lankan-army-ends-search-for-landslide-victims-focused-on-relocation-and-relief\">Nepal has reportedly donated $100,000 dollars<\/a> towards &#8220;relief operations in the disaster zones&#8221;. Whilst the desire to assist a neighbour in distress is commendable, Nepal has many, many people living in the aftermath of an earthquake without any tangible assistance, and with the monsoon looming.\u00a0 There is reportedly a huge amount of unspent relief money, intended to assist the victims of the earthquake, so far unspent.\u00a0 This must surely be the priority for Nepal?\u00a0 Whilst the Aranayake landslide, and associated damage, is a disaster in Sri Lanka, the impacts are a fraction of those in the rural areas of Nepal.\u00a0 This should be the priority for the Nepal Government.<\/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>A new video has appeared on Youtube showing the mobility of a small secondary failure at the site of the Aranayake landslide in Sri Lanka<!-- 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":18773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[54,963,168,66,72,1126],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-flow","tag-landslide-video","tag-liquesfaction","tag-nepal","tag-south-asia","tag-sti-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","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=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}