{"id":302,"date":"2009-11-01T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/01\/another-fatal-beach-rockfall-this-time-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:46","slug":"another-fatal-beach-rockfall-this-time-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/11\/01\/another-fatal-beach-rockfall-this-time-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Another fatal beach rockfall &#8211; this time in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August this year a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/8214785.stm\">rockfall on a beach<\/a> in Portugal killed five people and injured four others.  Unfortunately the newspapers in the UK are this evening reporting that a similar rockfall occurred today on a beach at Playa de los Gigantes in western Tenerife in Spain, killing a British woman and a local woman.  The Telegraph has a report and picture (below) of the incident:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-Spain-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 250px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_11-Spain-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Coastal cliffs unfortunately are prone to erosion and thus to rockfalls.  News reports suggest that access to this section of beach had been blocked due to an earlier event.  Sadly, many people do not seem to appreciate that rockfalls can occur at any time , including in good weather.<\/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 August this year a rockfall on a beach in Portugal killed five people and injured four others. Unfortunately the newspapers in the UK are this evening reporting that a similar rockfall occurred today on a beach at Playa de los Gigantes in western Tenerife in Spain, killing a British woman and a local woman. The Telegraph has a report and picture (below) of the incident: Coastal cliffs unfortunately are &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":[248,56,249,250],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beach","tag-rockfall","tag-spain","tag-tenerife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}