{"id":29779,"date":"2019-01-15T08:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T08:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=29779"},"modified":"2019-01-15T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:39:09","slug":"lebanon-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2019\/01\/15\/lebanon-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new landslide videos: Lebanon and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Two new landslide videos: Lebanon and Russia<\/h4>\n<p>Two new (to me at least) landslide videos have been posted onto Youtube:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>A landslide in Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have been a number of reports of landslides in the Lebanon since the start of the year.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Lebanon-News\/2019\/Jan-09\/473657-man-injured-in-landslide-on-tyre-sidon-highway.ashx\">Reports on 9th January<\/a> described a landslide on the Tyre &#8211; Sidon highway, injuring one person.&nbsp; Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Lebanon-News\/2019\/Jan-14\/474003-three-people-injured-in-landslide-on-chekka-batroun-highway.ashx?utm_source=Magnet%26utm_medium=Related%20Articles%20widget%26utm_campaign=Magnet%20tools\">on 14th January a landslide injured three people<\/a> on the Chekka &#8211; Batroun highway, injuring three people.&nbsp; There are warnings of more landslides to come.<\/p>\n<p>On 7th January, the following video was captured in Lebanon.&nbsp; It is not clear as to where this landslide occurred:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXQ58Z00xh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An earthflow in Russia<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a video has emerged, apparently captured in Russia in 2012, although there is very little information about it:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3VsLeUtXvxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty dramatic event.&nbsp; Reports say that the trees are being felled by an earthflow, and there are signs of that on the road:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29784\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29784\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29784\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/01\/19_01-Russia-1-e1547539975136.jpg\" alt=\"Lebanon\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\"\/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3VsLeUtXvxk\">A still from a Youtube video of trees being felled by an earthflow in Russia<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The number of trees being felled suggests that the landslide was occurring across a broad front.&nbsp; It would be interesting to know how this ended.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ellen Brundige for highlighting the Russian earthflow to me.<\/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>Two new (to me at least) landslide videos have been posted onto Youtube: one from Lebanon earlier this month and one from Russia in 2012<!-- 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":29784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20298,469,1035,27,546,35],"class_list":["post-29779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-earhflow","tag-featured","tag-lebanon","tag-road","tag-russia","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29779","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=29779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}