According to preliminary data, in the village of Nichke-Sai of the Uzgen District on the site of Top-Zhangak on March 26 a desolate landslide covered one residential building. <\/span>There were 6 people in the house: the owner, his wife and 4 children.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The site<\/a> provides a really good image of the landslide, which appears to be both large and mobile:<\/p>\n
The large landslide at Nichke-Sai in Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan on 26 March 2017, via Turmush<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, the AKIpress report includes a view of the upper reaches of the landslide:<\/p>\n
The upper reaches of the landslide at Nichke-Sai in Ugen, Kygyzstan, via AKIpress<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n
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The landslide is interesting given that there is still extensive snow cover.\u00a0 Note that the scar appears to lie in a steep scar high on the slope, with the slide then entraining a large volume of material downslope.\u00a0 The material looks to be fine-grained, with no sign of boulders.\u00a0 Kyrgyzstan is affected by fairly frequent landslides in loess – who can forget this amazing video of a loess landslide from there in May of last year.\u00a0\u00a0 I would speculate that this is another such example.<\/p>\n
Previous posts on loess landslides:<\/h5>\n
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- The location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide, as caught on that amazing video<\/a><\/li>\n
- Do not miss this: video of a catastrophic landslide in loess in Kyrgyzstan<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Abe Barek Landslide in Badakhshan, Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n
- Badakhshan landslide in Afghanistan \u2013 a loess failure?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Images of the Shanxi loess landslide<\/a><\/li>\n
- Yaglidere \u2013 a dramatic landslide video from Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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