{"id":23880,"date":"2017-05-15T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2017-05-15T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T06:31:24","slug":"clinch-mountain-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/05\/15\/clinch-mountain-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County: a large rockslide in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"
Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County: a large rockslide in Tennessee<\/h5>\n

This weekend a significant rockslide from Clinch Mountain closed down Highway 70 near to Cave Springs in Hawkins County in Tennessee, USA. Amanda Ketchledge, a reporter from WATE 6 News tweeted the image below of the landslide<\/a>, taken by Jay Herring:<\/p>\n

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The landslide on Highway 70 N from Clinch Mountain near Cave Springs in Hawkins County. Photo by Jay Herring via Amanda Ketchledge<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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WBIR has a nice article<\/a> about the landslide, which includes this aerial image of the rockslide:<\/p>\n

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Rockslide at Clinch Mountain on Highway 70 in Hawkins County in Tennessee. Photo from the Tennessee Department of Transportation via WBIR<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The image below appears to be the location on Google Earth. The spot is at 36.5012, -83.0282 if you want to take a look:<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of the location of the landslide at Clinch Mountain in Hawkings County Tennessee at the weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n

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From the image above the location looks innocent enough, but the images of the aftermath suggest that this is a classic planar rockslide on pre-existing joints that dip approximately parallel to the slope.\u00a0 This has resulted in the generation of tabular pieces of rock debris.\u00a0 It is of course fortunate that no-one was on the road at this location at the time of the landslide.\u00a0 On Sunday work started to clear the road<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend a classic and reasonably large planar rockslide blocked Highway 70 at Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County, Tennessee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":23884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,27,136,236,48],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-road","tag-rockslide","tag-tennessee","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","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=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}