{"id":26723,"date":"2018-02-05T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=26723"},"modified":"2018-02-05T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T08:12:18","slug":"tijuana-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/02\/05\/tijuana-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tijuana: a major landslide has destroyed 70 houses."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tijuana: a major landslide has destroyed up to 70 houses.<\/h4>\n

On Friday a major landslide struck the city of Tijuana in Mexico<\/a>, destroying up to 70 houses.\u00a0 El Universal reports<\/a> that the slide first became evident on 19th January, with progressive failure over the last few days, but that the major collapse occurred at about 3 pm on Friday.\u00a0 The landslide occurred in the Lomas del Rubi subdivision.\u00a0 The Yucatan Times<\/a> has a detailed report in English that includes details on the development of the landslide:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a very loud thunder,\u201d said Mar\u00eda Isabel Gonz\u00e1lez Ramos, \u201chouse were falling to pieces, there was wood, stones and cement all over the place since Monday, and things start getting worse by Tuesday, and Wednesday, the ground was literally sinking, until we could no longer enter or exit our house, we had to jump over the cracks in order to get our stuff out the house last night. \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a Google Maps view<\/a> of the area affected by the landslide:-<\/p>\n

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Google maps view of the Tijuana neighbourhood affected by the landslide<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

The houses appear to have been built on a steep slope at the top of the scarp. Interestingly though, last week Zetatijuana posted an article<\/a> on the early stages of the landslide (in Spanish), which noted that:<\/p>\n

[Atal\u00eda Ramos, a resident of the colony] added that those affected attributed the damage to the construction work of a new subdivision, Valle del Pedregal, a work of Grupo Melo, located at the bottom of the hillside where the colony is located and whose excavations have weakened the foundations of it.
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They include this image of the new housing development:-<\/p>\n

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The new housing subdivision in Tijuana (image by Jorge Due\u00f1es<\/span> via Zetatijuana<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the landslide has caused an irreparable level of damage to the community:-<\/p>\n

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Landslide damage at Lomas del Rubi in Tijuana, via El Sol de Tijuana<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week a major landslide badly damaged the community of Lomas del Rubi in Tijuana in Mexico, destroying 70 houses. A new housing subdivision is under construction at the foot of the slope. There are suspicions that this may have been the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,959,124,725,11658],"class_list":["post-26723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-mexico","tag-north-america","tag-urban-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","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=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}