{"id":18857,"date":"2016-06-08T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18857"},"modified":"2016-06-08T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:50:18","slug":"copiah-county-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/06\/08\/copiah-county-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Copiah County: a fatal landslide accident in a gravel quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"
Copiah County: a fatal landslide accident in a gravel quarry<\/h5>\n

In Copiah County in Mississippi a landslide on Friday engulfed two quarry workers and an excavator.\u00a0 The landslide occurred at the Harmony Mine and Mill in Crystal Springs at about 1 pm.\u00a0 Efforts have been ongoing since to recover their bodies, but this is proving to be an extremely challenging operation.\u00a0 As of nightfall last night this had not been accomplished.\u00a0 MS News has a timeline of the events to date<\/a> – on Sunday efforts were made to recover the excavator using a 230 ton crane, but without success.<\/p>\n

WJTV12 has a report<\/a> about the accident and the recovery works.\u00a0 This image appears to show the landslide mass and the buried excavator, of which just a small part is visible:<\/p>\n

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The site of the Copiah County landslide in Mississippi via WJTV12<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Based on this image the landslide appears to have been highly fluid – note the lack of surface morphology, suggesting that the landslide as flowed. This is likely to make the recovery operations very difficult as the deposit is probably very weak. Unfortunately there are likely to be be high suction forces, which makes extracting the machine without excavating around it very difficult.<\/p>\n

The landslide occurred during very heavy rainfall. Clearly there will need to be some work to try to investigate and understand what happened to generate a landslide like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday a landslide occurred in Copiah County in Mississippi, killing two workers. Recovery operations are proving to be difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,14,959,471,48],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-flowslide","tag-landslide-report","tag-quarry","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","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=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}