{"id":249,"date":"2010-01-01T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/01\/landslide-case-studies-from-the-xian-center-of-geological-survey-china\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:28","slug":"landslide-case-studies-from-the-xian-center-of-geological-survey-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/01\/landslide-case-studies-from-the-xian-center-of-geological-survey-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide case studies from the Xian Center of Geological Survey, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xian.cgs.gov.cn\/english\/\">Xian Center of Geological Survey<\/a> is compiling a set of very useful web resources of case studies of large landslides in Central China.  This is particularly interesting as many of the slides are loess failures, which are comparatively poorly documented.  The home page is here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xian.cgs.gov.cn\/english\/achievements\/land\/\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.xian.cgs.gov.cn\/english\/achievements\/land\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are two items of particular interest there.  The first is a PDF of a presentation on the landslides triggered by the Wenchuan earthquake.  This contains some great images of the slides &#8211; I include this image from the presentation as a taster:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/10_01-China-1_bmp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 215px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/10_01-China-1_bmp.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The second comes in the form of two PDFs of a book entitled &#8220;Landslides in China &#8211; Selected Case Studies by Yin Yueping.  This is a very impressive book, again with a selection of wonderful images.<\/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>The Xian Center of Geological Survey is compiling a set of very useful web resources of case studies of large landslides in Central China. This is particularly interesting as many of the slides are loess failures, which are comparatively poorly documented. The home page is here:http:\/\/www.xian.cgs.gov.cn\/english\/achievements\/land\/ There are two items of particular interest there. The first is a PDF of a presentation on the landslides triggered by the Wenchuan earthquake. &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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,186],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}