{"id":18912,"date":"2016-06-15T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2016-06-15T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:48:13","slug":"the-boulder-that-came-to-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/06\/15\/the-boulder-that-came-to-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"The boulder that came to tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The boulder that came to tea<\/h5>\n<p>The Croatian news website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dulist.hr\/odron-sa-srda-stijena-se-zaustavila-u-prozoru-kuce\/330675\/\">Dulist<\/a> has a story this week about a boulder that came to tea in a house in Dubrovnik.\u00a0 The pictures are quite startling:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18916\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18916\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/06\/16_05-tea-1-e1465971967744.jpg\" alt=\"boulder that came to tea\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boulder that came to tea &#8211; via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dulist.hr\/odron-sa-srda-stijena-se-zaustavila-u-prozoru-kuce\/330675\/\">Dulist<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a translation of the article, this landslide happened during heavy rainfall on Monday night.\u00a0 This block was part of a larger landslide on State Road D-8.\u00a0 The images suggest that this boulder bounced on the road before smashing through the broadside barrier:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18917\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18917\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18917\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/06\/16_05-tea-2-e1465972359574.jpg\" alt=\"The boulder that cam to tea, via Dulist\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boulder that came to tea &#8211; the roadside impact, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dulist.hr\/odron-sa-srda-stijena-se-zaustavila-u-prozoru-kuce\/330675\/\">Dulist<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And then bounced again in the garden of the house (note the huge divot in the grass), before trying to gain entry via the a bedroom window:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18921\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18921\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18921\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/06\/16_05-tea-3-e1465972471109.jpg\" alt=\"The boulder that came to tea\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boulder that came to tea, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dulist.hr\/odron-sa-srda-stijena-se-zaustavila-u-prozoru-kuce\/330675\/\">Dulist<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This looks to be a classic case of a boulder that is rotating around its shortest axis, and so has gained a stable geometry as it travels down the hill.\u00a0 This situation creates the possibility of high velocities, large bounces and long travel distances.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d imagine that removing the boulder from the window is not going to be a trivial task<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dulist.hr\/odron-sa-srda-stijena-se-zaustavila-u-prozoru-kuce\/330675\/\">Dulist article<\/a>, the same house was struck by a boulder in 2012.\u00a0 The Google Translation of the article, which I have tidied up, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"Igrom nesretnog slu\u010daja, Kre\u010dkova ku\u0107a je ve\u0107 bila pogo\u0111ena velikom kamenom stijenom i to pred gotovo to\u010dno \u010detiri godine, to\u010dnije 16. lipnja 2012., kad je stijena u padu polomila nekoliko stabala, presko\u010dila cestu, odbila se o ogradu ceste, okrznula ogradu parkirnog prilaza\">The K\u0159e\u010dkov\u00e1 house has already been hit by a big boulder, almost exactly four years ago, namely on 16 June 2012, when the rocks in the fall broke several trees, skipped the road, bounced off the railing of the road, glanced off the fence sound the driveway parking <\/span><span title=\"te poput projektila probila krov ku\u0107e.\">and travelled like a projectile through the roof of the house. <\/span><span title=\"Sre\u0107om krovna konstrukcija uspjela je zaustaviti stijenu. \">Fortunately the roof structure was able to stop the rock.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this suggests that some work is needed quite urgently to assess the stability of the slope above the road.\u00a0 The article appears to suggest that there may be more unstable blocks.<\/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>The boulder that came to tea &#8211; 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