{"id":30324,"date":"2019-03-04T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=30324"},"modified":"2019-03-04T06:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:26:44","slug":"thanpal-rockslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2019\/03\/04\/thanpal-rockslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanpal, Kashmir: three videos of the same massive rock slope failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Thanpal, Kashmir: three videos of the same massive rock slope failure<\/h4>\n<p>Three different videos have been posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">Youtube<\/a> showing a very large, very dramatic rockslope failure near to Thanpal Dam in the Indian controlled portion of Kashmir. The landslide, which occurred on 2nd March 2019, has been associated with a period of heavy rainfall across the region, which has led to substantial damage.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZsNCnFft6I\">This first video<\/a> gives a head on view of the landslide as it developed:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZsNCnFft6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it shows two phases of movement of the landslide, with the second phase being a failure in the crown of the slope that triggered further sliding downhill:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30342\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30342\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30342\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/03\/19_03-Kashmir-1-e1551679739700.jpg\" alt=\"Thanpal landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"329\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The large rockslope failure near to Thanpal Dam in Kashmir. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZsNCnFft6I\">video uploaded to Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The second video shows the same landslide from a more oblique perspective:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P96EoqlY77I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It shows a longer sequence of the failure, and also captures the way in which the landslide mobilises the existing debris pile in the valley, causing it to shount across sthe channel and then inducing a displacement wave:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30347\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30347\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/03\/19_03-Kashmir-2.jpg\" alt=\"Thanpal rockslide\" width=\"469\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/03\/19_03-Kashmir-2.jpg 469w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/03\/19_03-Kashmir-2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mobilisation of debris in the channel, and the development of a displacement wave, by the large rockslope failure near to Thanpal Dam in Kashmir. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P96EoqlY77I\">video uploaded to Youtube<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The third video gives a perspective that is similar to the second, but the orientation of the camera means that molre of the failure is seen.\u00a0 This video captures the mobilisation of the valley floor debris even better, and also gives a nice perspective of the wave as it propagates down the channel:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZVrMwSRq1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly the road is now blocked.\u00a0 There must be a strong suspicion here that this rockslope failure has been caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/03\/29\/nepal-rural-roads-1\/\">cutting of the slope\u00a0 for the road<\/a>. As such it is yet another <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/02\/01\/landslides-and-rural-roads-in-high-mountains-an-example-from-nepal\/\">example of inadequate highway engineering causing loss of infrastructure and serious, permanent environmental damage<\/a>.\u00a0 It is completely unnecessary.<\/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>Three videos have been posted on Youtube showing a very large, very dramatic rockslope failure near to Thanpal Dam in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.  <!-- 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":30342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,5,149,963,72],"class_list":["post-30324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-landslide-video","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324","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=30324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}