![\"Kaikoura](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/11\/16_11-Kaikoura-1-e1479195527512.jpg\")
One of the Kaikoura earthquake landslides by Sgt Sam Shepherd of the Royal New Zealand Defence Force<\/p><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile some of the most impressive landsliding may well be inland in the Kaikoura Range of hills.\u00a0 The landslide on the Dart Stream that temporarily blocked the valley drew some attention, and this is the first image that I have seen that gives a wider perspective.\u00a0 It suggests extensive landsliding in the range:<\/p>\n
![\"Kaikoura](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/11\/16_11-Clarence-1.jpg\")
A first image of Kaikoura earthquake landslides in the Kaikoura range<\/p><\/div>\n
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I suspect that this is the location on Google Earth:<\/p>\n
![\"Kaikoura](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/11\/16_11-Kaikoura-4-e1479196526483.jpg\")
Google Earth image of one of the largest of the Kaikoura Earthquake landslides<\/p><\/div>\n
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There will now be a great deal of interest in the extent of the landslides triggered by this earthquake.\u00a0 You can get a reasonable first order estimate of this by comparing the location of the aftershocks to the topography.\u00a0 As a very approximate estimate, the area with steep topography within the area defined by the main aftershocks will have been at a high risk of significant landslides.\u00a0 This is GNS \/ Geonet aftershock data<\/a> plotted on Google Earth, with the location of the valley-blocking landslide above shown:<\/p>\n The location of Kaikoura earthquake aftershocks plotted on Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n The map suggests that a substantial upland area may have been affected by landslides.\u00a0 Of course this sort of approach is extremely rough and ready, and needs to be replaced quickly with proper field data, but it does give an indication of the magnitude of the problem facing New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last 24 hours further information has started to emerge about Kaikoura earthquake landslides on the coast and inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[1209,23,469,1213,7],"class_list":["post-20460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-aftershock","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-kaikoura","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460","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=20460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kaikoura](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2016\/11\/16_11-Kaikoura-3b-e1479196890208.jpg\")