{"id":292,"date":"2009-11-11T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/11\/a-surprising-spell-of-landslides\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:43","slug":"a-surprising-spell-of-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/11\/a-surprising-spell-of-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprising spell of landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most years in which I have been collecting landslide fatality statistics (since 2002) November has been a month with quite low landslide occurrence.  Not this year though &#8211; in fact the last few days have been more like the summer monsoon season, with fatal landslides occurring in a wide range of places.  Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>El Salvador on 6th November, in which the volcanic lahars triggered by Hurricane Ida appear to have killed over 100 people, with a few (very speculative) reports of rather more;<\/li>\n<li>South Sulawesi in Indonesia, when 13 people were killed in a slide Palopo;<\/li>\n<li>Tamil Nadu on 9th and 10th November, when a number of landslides killed at least 30 people;<\/li>\n<li>Casamicciola on Ischia in Italy on 9th November, when a 15 year old girl was killed by a slide that carried her out to sea in a bus;<\/li>\n<li>Bukittinggi in West Sumatra on 10th November, when two people were killed;<\/li>\n<li>Wassa-Akropong in Ghana on 10th November, when up to 30 people were killed in a landslide in an illegal mine;<\/li>\n<li>Goha village in Tanzania on 10th November, when 20 people were killed in a landslide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition there have been reports of non-fatal landslides in the USA, Serbia, Vietnam, etc.  I cannot tell at the moment whether this is just coincidence or something more significant, perhaps due to the El Nino conditions.  With Cyclone Phyan currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu\/Tropical\/Gif\/nin.latest.gif\">bringing heavy rainfall<\/a> to central western India, an area that is landslide-prone, there could be further events in the next few days. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-TC-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 271px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-TC-1.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/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>In most years in which I have been collecting landslide fatality statistics (since 2002) November has been a month with quite low landslide occurrence. Not this year though &#8211; in fact the last few days have been more like the summer monsoon season, with fatal landslides occurring in a wide range of places. Examples include: El Salvador on 6th November, in which the volcanic lahars triggered by Hurricane Ida appear &hellip;<!-- 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":[225,235,5,141,36,959,234],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-el-salvador","tag-ghana","tag-india","tag-indonesia","tag-italy","tag-landslide-report","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}