{"id":290,"date":"2009-11-16T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/16\/mining-related-loess-landslide-in-china-kills-at-least-12\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:43","slug":"mining-related-loess-landslide-in-china-kills-at-least-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/16\/mining-related-loess-landslide-in-china-kills-at-least-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining related loess landslide in China kills at least 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

See update here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chinese language version of the Xinhua<\/span> website<\/a> is reporting that a landslide occurred this morning in Zhangzishan<\/span> Township, Zhongyang<\/span> County, Luliang<\/span> in Shanxi<\/span> province, burying five houses. Reports suggest that about 25 people were buried – of these two have been rescued alive whilst 12 bodies have been recovered so far. Xinhua<\/span> has images of the scene:<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>You may well have noticed the slightly odd aspect of this slide – which is that there is snow on the ground. Landslides under these conditions are not that common unless there is rapid snow melt<\/span> occurring (which is unlikely at this time of year). However, the proper explanation probably lies in the fact that the houses that were hit were the temporary camp from a coal mine. This material that makes up the slide does not look like loess<\/span> not coal waste, but the landscape does look like it has been excavated and disturbed, so I suspect that this is another tragic accident in a long history of mining accidents in China.<\/p>\n

Typically, the Google Earth image of the area is low resolution in the area of interest (the reported location is at the bottom of the image):<\/p>\n

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However, zooming into the loess<\/span> area at the top of the slide suggests that open pit coal mines are active in this area:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>See update here<\/a>
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See update here The Chinese language version of the Xinhua website is reporting that a landslide occurred this morning in Zhangzishan Township, Zhongyang County, Luliang in Shanxi province, burying five houses. Reports suggest that about 25 people were buried – of these two have been rescued alive whilst 12 bodies have been recovered so far. Xinhua has images of the scene: You may well have noticed the slightly odd aspect …<\/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":[16,233,959,232,205],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-coal-mine","tag-landslide-report","tag-loess","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}