{"id":191,"date":"2010-03-22T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/03\/22\/a-new-submarine-landslide-at-nw-rota-near-guam\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:08","slug":"a-new-submarine-landslide-at-nw-rota-near-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/03\/22\/a-new-submarine-landslide-at-nw-rota-near-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"A new submarine landslide at NW Rota, near Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NW Rota volcano is located in the Mariana Volcanic Arc, about 100 km north of Guam at a depth of about 520 below sea level.  NSF currently funds an scientific expedition to this active volcano; a scientific cruise to this site is currently occurring.  The team are running a blog of their experiences and findings &#8211; it is <a href=\"http:\/\/nwrota2010.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday they reported that in the time since their 2009 cruise the volcano has experienced a major landslide.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/Blog3_map1.png\">bathymetry data<\/a> shows this rather well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_03-Rota-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 303px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_03-Rota-1.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The landslide has caused up to 100 m of erosion from the summit area of the volcano (the blue areas on the map) and up to 40 m of deposition on the gentle lower slopes.  These deposits extend for a distance of 8 km.<\/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 NW Rota volcano is located in the Mariana Volcanic Arc, about 100 km north of Guam at a depth of about 520 below sea level. NSF currently funds an scientific expedition to this active volcano; a scientific cruise to this site is currently occurring. The team are running a blog of their experiences and findings &#8211; it is here. Yesterday they reported that in the time since their 2009 &hellip;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,33],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-submarine-landslide","tag-volcanic-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}