{"id":2410,"date":"2010-12-07T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2010-12-07T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:34:24","slug":"update-on-the-landslide-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/12\/07\/update-on-the-landslide-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the landslide in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/colombia\/antioquia\/bello-la-peor-tragedia-del-invierno-en-colombia_8537220-4\">latest report in El Tiempo<\/a>, the large landslide in La Gabriela, Bello in Colombia is now through to have killed 124 people.\u00a0 Of these victims, the bodies of 36 people have been recovered to date, but rescue operations are being hampered by concerns about the potential for further landslides.\u00a0 The landslide itself is now thought to have had a volume of about 8000 cubic metres and a crown to toe length of about 300 metres.\u00a0 Although not huge, the slide buried 35 poorly constructed houses at 2:30 pm (local time), resulting in the major loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>There are few good images of the site that allow interpretation of the process of the slide.\u00a0 The best two that I have seen are these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?ArticleId=380892&amp;CategoryId=10718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/12\/10_12-Colombia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.salon.com\/wires\/allwires\/2010\/12\/05\/D9JU5A600_lt_colombia_landslide\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2412\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/12\/10_12-Colombia-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/12\/10_12-Colombia-3.jpg 512w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/12\/10_12-Colombia-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based upon this the landslide looks to have been a moderately deep earthflow type failure, with quite a large run out, suggesting a fairly mobile mass.\u00a0 Unfortunately to date I have not been able to locate the site of the landslide on a map.\u00a0 Has anyone been able to pin this down as yet, as I would like to take a look at the imagery of the topography before the landslide.<\/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>According to the latest report in El Tiempo, the large landslide in La Gabriela, Bello in Colombia is now through to have killed 124 people.\u00a0 Of these victims, the bodies of 36 people have been recovered to date, but rescue operations are being hampered by concerns about the potential for further landslides.\u00a0 The landslide itself is now thought to have had a volume of about 8000 cubic metres and a &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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[359,959],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colombia","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}