{"id":25763,"date":"2017-09-26T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=25763"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:17:35","slug":"el-jale-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/09\/26\/el-jale-1\/","title":{"rendered":"El Jale, Ixtapaluca: a stunning earthquake triggered landslide video from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25774\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-3-e1506408884748.jpg\" alt=\"El Jale landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"322\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A still from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_zC6RfrzmA\">Youtube video<\/a> of the landslides at El Jale in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h4>El Jale, Ixtapaluca: a stunning earthquake triggered landslide video from Mexico<\/h4>\n<p>On the day of the earthquake in Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/09\/19\/raboso-mexico-1\/\">I noted that there was a high chance that it would have triggered landslides<\/a>.&nbsp; It was always unlikely that this would be efficient in so doing in the manner of, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/09\/21\/valley-blocking-slips\/\">Kaikoura earthquake<\/a> (due to the depth of the rupture), it had the potential to generate slides over a wide area.&nbsp; A video has recently been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_zC6RfrzmA\">posted to Youtube<\/a> that shows landslides being triggered by this event, reportedly El Jale in Ixtapaluca in Mexico City.&nbsp; It is spectacular:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_zC6RfrzmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Google Earth image of the Ixtapaluca area:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25764\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25764\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25764\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-1-e1506407294497.jpg\" alt=\"El Jale\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\"\/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth image of the Ixtapaluca area of Mexico City<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The video appears to show the collapse of a quarry wall in a comparatively rural area.&nbsp; The one quarry shown above does not seem to fit the video.&nbsp; A better fit to the video appears to a set of quarries located further to the east:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25769\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25769\" class=\" wp-image-25769\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-2.jpg\" alt=\"El Jale landslide\" width=\"639\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-2.jpg 1435w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-2-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-2-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2017\/09\/17_09-El-Jale-2-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth image of the quarries near to El Jale that may have been responsible for the landslide captured on video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>These quarries are likely to be mining volcanic materials, which would explain both the instability and the large amounts of dust generated.&nbsp; It is not clear as to whether there was any losses from these landslides.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fox8.com\/2017\/09\/19\/7-1-earthquake-strikes-central-mexico\/\"> One early report<\/a> did suggest that a quarry worker was killed in the event, but the location was given as Morales state, so it is unlikely to be this event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez reported on Twitter that at least 42 people had died in his state south of Mexico City.&nbsp; Gov. Alfredo del Mazo told the Televisa news network that two people died in the State of Mexico, which also borders the capital: a quarry worker who was killed when the quake unleashed a rockslide and another person who was hit by a falling lamppost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far this part of the area affected by the earthquake has not yet been fully images by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/\">Planet Labs<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll take a look when images become available.<\/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>A stunning video has been posted to Youtube showing landslides at El Jale, Ixtapaluca, Mexico City, triggered by the earthquake on 19th September 201<!-- 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":25769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[23,469,124,471,35],"class_list":["post-25763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-mexico","tag-quarry","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763","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=25763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}