{"id":19655,"date":"2016-09-02T07:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2016-09-02T07:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:26:28","slug":"siliguri-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/09\/02\/siliguri-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarkhand and Siliguri: two new landslide videos from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Uttarkhand and Siliguri: two new landslide videos from India<\/h5>\n<p>Two interesting landslide videos have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?q=landslide&amp;sp=EgIIAw%253D%253D\">posted on Youtube<\/a>, one from Uttarakhand and one from Siliguri.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1Sx-qIi_8k\">this video<\/a> from the Gangotri Highway in Uttarakhand between Rishikesh and Badrinath.\u00a0 the road was reportedly closed for 15 hours:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C1Sx-qIi_8k?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamics of the failure are quite complex as the major boulder in effect goes through a toppling motion, with a great deal of rotation:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19658\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19658\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19658\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/09\/16_08-Uttarakhand-1-e1472800481333.jpg\" alt=\"Siliguri\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landslide in Uttarakhand via Youtube<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And secondly, this event reportedly occurred on the Gangtok National Highway in Siliguri.\u00a0 The video was posted on 26th August:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewowwlQiuDQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>If you look carefully you will see that at the time that the bulldozer was struck by the landslide the driver was still in the machine.\u00a0 He emerges from the cab (or from the downslope side of the bulldozer at about the 40 second mark, and then feels the wisely scene).\u00a0 That was a very lucky escape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Two new landslide videos from India have been posted this week on Youtube &#8211; one showing a large rockslide in Uttarakhand and the other a lucky escape from Siliguri<!-- 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":19658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,5,963,72],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-landslide-video","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","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=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}