{"id":19963,"date":"2016-10-06T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19963"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T06:46:08","slug":"liukuo-hot-spring-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/10\/06\/liukuo-hot-spring-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Liukuo Hot Spring: a major landslide on the Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Liukuo Hot Spring landslide<\/h5>\n<p>Earlier this week the Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan, one of only a small number of roads that cross the Central Mountains of Taiwan, suffered a major landslide at Liukou Hot Spring.\u00a0 This event was captured on a fairly dramatic video by road users.\u00a0 The video is contained within this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vweoWhXF51o\">PTS News report:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vweoWhXF51o?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.pts.org.tw\/article\/336949\">PTS News<\/a> has a nice article about the landslide and its impacts, which indicates that about 150 metres of the road has been lost.\u00a0 The report also contains some nice drone images of the landslide that demonstrate its size:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19966\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19966\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19966\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/10\/16_10-Liukou-1-e1475735154110.jpg\" alt=\"Liukou Hot Spring\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landslide on the Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan at Liukou Hot Spring, via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pts.org.tw\/article\/336949\">PTS News<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19968\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19968\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/10\/16_10-Liukou-2.jpg\" alt=\"Liukou Hot Spring\" width=\"632\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/10\/16_10-Liukou-2.jpg 632w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/10\/16_10-Liukou-2-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide on the Southern Cross Island Highway at Liukou Hot Spring, via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pts.org.tw\/article\/336949\">PTS News<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan is probably one of the most landslide-prone roads on Earth.\u00a0 Despite working in Taiwan for 25 years I have never yet managed a successful traverse without the way being blocked by a landslide.\u00a0 This Google Earth image illustrates the magnitude of the challenges:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19972\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19972\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/10\/16_10-Liukou-3-e1475735565285.jpg\" alt=\"Liukou Hot Spring\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth image of the central portion of the Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these landslides were triggered by<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/08\/18\/some-reflections-on-the-typhoon-morakot-landslide-disaster-in-taiwan\/\"> Typhoon Morakot in 2009<\/a>.\u00a0 Keeping this road open is a major challenge, but it is an essential access route for communities located in the mountains.\u00a0 That it is open at all is a testament to the engineers.<\/p>\n<h5>Similar posts that may be of interest<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Breaking news? 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Hundreds missing in Taiwan landslides after Typhoon Morakot?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Typhoon Morakot mudslides: Before and after photos of Shiaolin (Hsiao-lin) village in Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/08\/18\/typhoon-morakot-mudslides-before-and-after-photos-of-shiaolin-hsiao-lin-village-in-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Typhoon Morakot mudslides: Before and after photos of Shiaolin (Hsiao-lin) village in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Eyewitness account of landslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/08\/31\/eyewitness-account-of-landslides-triggered-by-typhoon-morakot-in-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eyewitness account of landslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to After Morakot\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/09\/22\/after-morakot\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">After Morakot<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Without doubt the most amazing landslide of the year so far \u2013 Pingtung County, Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/05\/without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Without doubt the most amazing landslide of the year so far \u2013 Pingtung County, Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Landslides from typhoon Megi in Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/10\/24\/landslides-from-typhoon-megi-in-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Landslides from typhoon Megi in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to The mechanism of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/26\/the-mechanism-of-the-highway-3-landslide-in-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The mechanism of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"posttitle srch\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Images of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/26\/images-of-the-highway-3-landslide-in-taiwan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Images of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week a major landslide, caught on video, blocked the Southern Cross Island Highway at Liukou Hot Spring in Taiwan<!-- 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":19968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,103,959,81],"class_list":["post-19963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-highway","tag-landslide-report","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963","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=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}