{"id":2114,"date":"2010-10-19T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/10\/19\/two-fatal-landslides-in-the-earthquake-affected-areas-of-haiti\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:27:00","slug":"two-fatal-landslides-in-the-earthquake-affected-areas-of-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/10\/19\/two-fatal-landslides-in-the-earthquake-affected-areas-of-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fatal landslides in the earthquake affected areas of Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problems continue in the earthquake affected areas of Haiti, where over 2 million people remain essentially homeless 10 months after the devastating earthquake.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporterslive.com\/1996-haitian-landslides-and-floods-kill-12.html\">Reporters Live<\/a> are carrying a story that heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has triggered two, rather different fatality-inducing landslides:<br \/><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>1. A collapse in a sand quarry<\/b><br \/>Illegal quarrying of sand to be used for rebuilding is turning into a major, if unsurprising, problem in the hills around Port-au-Prince.&nbsp; The reports suggest that such a quarry to the west of Port-au-Prince collapsed in the heavy rainfall, killing eight people including two children.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_10-Haiti-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_10-Haiti-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>2. Landslide in Carrefour<\/b><br \/>Meanwhile the article also notes that a second landslide, this time in Carrefour, killed four people and left a further three missing.&nbsp; The report also suggests that &#8220;residents likewise said that there had been unreported mudslides that occurred in the last few weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, Haiti has not been hit by a major hurricane, although we are not quite out of the woods yet.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the extreme vulnerability to heavy rainfall of both the landscape and the population is going to be a long lasting legacy of the earthquake.<\/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>Problems continue in the earthquake affected areas of Haiti, where over 2 million people remain essentially homeless 10 months after the devastating earthquake.&nbsp; Reporters Live are carrying a story that heavy rainfall in the last 48 hours has triggered two, rather different fatality-inducing landslides: 1. A collapse in a sand quarryIllegal quarrying of sand to be used for rebuilding is turning into a major, if unsurprising, problem in the hills &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":2154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,68,959,471],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-earthquake","tag-haiti","tag-landslide-report","tag-quarry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","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=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}