{"id":2389,"date":"2010-11-29T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2010-11-29T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:35:57","slug":"update-on-the-tawang-monastery-and-a-good-article-on-the-tribulations-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/11\/29\/update-on-the-tawang-monastery-and-a-good-article-on-the-tribulations-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Tawang Monastery and a good article on the tribulations of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update on Tawang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to reader Adrian Moon for tracking this down – an image of the landslide affecting the Tawang Monastery site<\/a> in India has been posted on the Echo of Aranchal website:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Whilst it is hard to place the image, the most likely spot appears to be the west-facing slope section, which looks to have a landslide morphology:<\/p>\n

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The cycle of disaster in Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BBC News website has a very nice story her<\/a>e about the impact of the most recent floods on the rebuilding and development of the earthquake affected areas of northern Pakistan.\u00a0 The piece follows with a nice quote from a local resident who has been affected by both disasters:<\/p>\n

“It was easier after the earthquake,” says Tahir Khan.\u00a0 “We had lost just the buildings. This time, everything is gone – the buildings, the fixtures, the generators, the roads and the land on which it was all built.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-11812934<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update on Tawang Thanks to reader Adrian Moon for tracking this down – an image of the landslide affecting the Tawang Monastery site in India has been posted on the Echo of Aranchal website: Whilst it is hard to place the image, the most likely spot appears to be the west-facing slope section, which looks to have a landslide morphology: The cycle of disaster in Pakistan The BBC News website …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,5,959,10],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flood","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}