“Nine people have died in a landslide in north China’s Shanxi Province, local authorities said Monday.\u00a0 The landslide happened at around 4:57 a.m. Monday in Caijiazhuang village in Lishi District of Lyuliang City, the local publicity department said.”<\/em><\/p>\n The Li et al.<\/em> (2018)<\/a> research that I featured yesterday noted that these landslides occur preferentially between 10 pm and 5 am, so this landslide fits the pattern.<\/p>\n The Straits Times<\/a> has a couple of images of the landslide:-<\/p>\n The cracking-sliding landslide at Caijiazhuang in China on 30th April, which killed nine people. Image via The Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n On the face of it this appears to meet the description of a cracking-sliding landslide, and the material appears to be loess or something similar.\u00a0 This image shows the landslide from a different perspective:-<\/p>\n The cracking-sliding landslide at Caijiazhuang in China on 30th April, which killed nine people. Image via The Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n The presence of the chimneys suggests that this might have been a brick pit, which in turn might imply that undercutting of the slope might have been a factor in this instability, perhaps.\u00a0 There are certainly signs of instability in the adjacent slopes, though perhaps not on the scale of this landslide.\u00a0 Li et al.<\/em> (2018)<\/a> found that a very high proportion of these landslides were associated with slope disturbance of some type.<\/p>\n![\"Caijiazhuang\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/05\/18_04-cracking-3-e1525155038981.jpg\")
![\"Caijiazhuang\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/05\/18_04-cracking-4-e1525155316252.jpg\")
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