{"id":19886,"date":"2016-09-28T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19886"},"modified":"2016-09-28T00:28:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T00:28:59","slug":"rizhao-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/09\/28\/rizhao-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rizhao rockslide: a narrow escape in a new public park in Shandong, China"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rizhao rockslide in Shangdong<\/h5>\n

The city of Rizhao in Shangdong, Eastern China has had an exceptionally lucky escape this week when a rockslide occurred in a new public park, shortly before it was due to open.\u00a0 The location is Phoenix Mountain in the centre of the city; the Park was due to open “later this month”.\u00a0 The rockslide itself is somewhat dramatic, as this image from The Nanfang<\/a> shows:-<\/p>\n

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The rockslide at Rizhao in Shandong, via The Nanfang<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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A view of the rockslide from a different angle looks no less dramatic:<\/p>\n

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The rockslide at Rizhao in Shandong, via The Nanfang<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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According to the article, this slope had been turned into a rock climbing facility, and the area to the right of the landslide shows evidence of extensive slope engineering.\u00a0 I assume that this extended into the area that has failed, although\u00a0 it is not possible to say what it looked like.\u00a0 The failure itself appears to have been structurally controlled.\u00a0 Note the very large boulder sizes.\u00a0 Needless to say, if this landslide had occurred a month later the impact could have been very dramatic, with losses on the slope, in the park and in the parking area.\u00a0 The article<\/a> makes some interesting observations about cause:<\/p>\n

Zhang Bao, director of Lanshan District emergency services,\u00a0said a preliminary investigation has determined that the landslide was a natural phenomenon, and not man made. However, Zhang\u00a0did not\u00a0answer questions as to why the park facilities are located so close\u00a0to the mountain, or if any studies or investigations were conducted prior to the construction of the rock climbing facility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a courageous conclusion in an area that has clearly had extensive slope works.\u00a0 Unfortunately as yet I have been unable to precisely locate this massif on Google Earth, so as yet cannot give an indication as to what this site was like before they works were undertaken.\u00a0 My best guess (and it is no more than that) is that it is this site, the image is from last year:<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of the possible location of the Rizhao rockslide<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Saturday a large rockslide occurred at a brand new public park in Rizhao in Shandong, eastern China. The event appears to have been a lucky escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,881,469,246,136],"class_list":["post-19886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-risk","tag-rockslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886","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=19886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}