{"id":300,"date":"2009-11-04T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/04\/the-basic-physics-of-landslides-is-the-same-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:46","slug":"the-basic-physics-of-landslides-is-the-same-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/04\/the-basic-physics-of-landslides-is-the-same-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The basic physics of landslides is the same everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst landslides come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, the fundamental physics that controls material deformation on slopes is the same everywhere.  I was reminded of this truism this week when Andrew Giles pointed out a large rockslide that occurred a few days ago, blocking Interstate 40 at Pigeon Gorge in North Carolina, USA.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091028\/NEWS01\/910280311&amp;theme=ROCKSLIDE\">Citizen-times.com<\/a> website has a nice report and images of the slide:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-I_40-slide.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 236px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-I_40-slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-I_40-slide-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 267px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-I_40-slide-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The images reminded me very strongly of the 2003 Bukit Lanjan landslide, thousands of kilometres away in Malaysia (image from <a href=\"http:\/\/slopes.jkr.gov.my\/Photos\/Failure\/pages\/Bukit%20Lanjan%20NKVE-2003.htm\">CKC Malaysia<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-Bukit-Lanjan-slide.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 265px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-Bukit-Lanjan-slide.jpg\" 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>Whilst landslides come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, the fundamental physics that controls material deformation on slopes is the same everywhere. I was reminded of this truism this week when Andrew Giles pointed out a large rockslide that occurred a few days ago, blocking Interstate 40 at Pigeon Gorge in North Carolina, USA. The Citizen-times.com website has a nice report and images of the slide: The images reminded &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":[103,244,136,48],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-highway","tag-malaysia","tag-rockslide","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}