{"id":2777,"date":"2011-04-01T03:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2011-04-01T03:58:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:58:31","slug":"large-landslide-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/04\/01\/large-landslide-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"A large landslide in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days torrential rainfall has affected parts of Thailand, causing very substantial levels of damage.&nbsp; The NASA TRMM satellite has captured some good data on the location and extent of this rainfall event, which is nicely described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-03-nasa-trmm-satellite-deadly-rainfall.html\">this article from PhysOrg<\/a>.&nbsp; The rainfall extent is clear from the image below from that article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-TRMM-Thailand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2778\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-TRMM-Thailand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-TRMM-Thailand.jpg 475w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-TRMM-Thailand-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-TRMM-Thailand-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Landslides appear to have been triggered quite extensively.&nbsp; The largest seems to have occurred at Ban Ton Harn in Khao Phanom district of Krabi province, where a large and highly energetic debris flow has destroyed the village.&nbsp; The final toll from the landslide is a little unclear, with estimates varying substantially, but five people have been confirmed as having been killed.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/multimedia\/photo\/229713\/a-landslide-destroyed-the-houses\">Bangkok Post has an impressive gallery of images of the landslide<\/a>, of which these two are probably the most startling:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2780\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-2.jpg 635w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2779\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/04\/11_04-Thailand-landslide-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The size of the boulders here is clearly notable; given that the village was directly struck by the event, the death toll seems surprisingly low.&nbsp; A more detailed description of losses across Thailand from this heavy rainfall event is provided in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationmultimedia.com\/2011\/04\/01\/national\/Death-toll-climbs-to-13-30152264.html\">this article<\/a>, which indicates that more than 800,000 people have been affected, and 13 killed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, once again the UK media have focused on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1371967\/Helicopters-aircraft-carrier-used-rescue-800-tourists-torrential-rain-continues-batter-Thailand-beach-resorts.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\">tourists having their holidays ruined<\/a>.<\/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>Brief details and images of a large landslide in Krabi Province, Thailand<!-- 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":[959,30],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-landslide-report","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}