{"id":3051,"date":"2011-05-20T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T06:47:46","slug":"snake-river-landslide-wyoming-with-an-amazing-and-very-funny-time-lapse-video-of-the-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/05\/20\/snake-river-landslide-wyoming-with-an-amazing-and-very-funny-time-lapse-video-of-the-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake River landslide, Wyoming with an amazing (and very funny) time-lapse video of the movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been very noticeable in the last few weeks that western and central areas of the US and Canada are suffering a high incidence of landslides, mostly causing significant disruption to the road network and some property damage.\u00a0 The cause seems to be a combination of heavy rainfall and rapid melt of an unsually large snowpack.\u00a0 One notable example has occurred in the Snake River Canyon, near to Jackson in Wyoming, where a rather interesting landslide has been moving over the last few days.\u00a0 This is an area of known landslide hazard &#8211; indeed it is even highlighted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/pp\/p1183\/pp1183.html\">USGS paper on landslides in the USA<\/a>, and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slopeindicator.com\/stories\/snakeriver.html\">several reports about landslide issues in this area<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.wy.us\/wydot\/\">Trib.com<\/a> has the following rather nice picture of the landslide:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3052\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/05\/20\/snake-river-landslide-wyoming-with-an-amazing-and-very-funny-time-lapse-video-of-the-movement\/11_05-wyoming-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3052\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that this makes the location of the landslide here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3053\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/05\/20\/snake-river-landslide-wyoming-with-an-amazing-and-very-funny-time-lapse-video-of-the-movement\/11_05-wyoming-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-3.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-3-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-3-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a Google Earth perspective image of the site before the failure:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3054\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/05\/20\/snake-river-landslide-wyoming-with-an-amazing-and-very-funny-time-lapse-video-of-the-movement\/11_05-wyoming-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3054\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-2.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/05\/11_05-Wyoming-2-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is clear from the images,\u00a0 this landslide, which is a classic earthflow, is completely blocking the road.\u00a0 Interestingly, it is still moving at a rate of about 50 cm per hour.\u00a0 As a result, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.wy.us\/wydot\/\">Wyoming DoT<\/a> have captured and released this terrific time-lapse video of the\u00a0 landslide motion:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Time Lapse: Snake River Landslide\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u99FnHi5-xA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In terms of the motion of the landslide, this is quite wonderful.\u00a0 Note that the displacement rate is quite constant with time but that there are two distinct flows in operation.\u00a0 The Benny Hill style moment is hilarious (did he really try to touch his toes?) and quite inspired.\u00a0 It deserves to go viral!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.wy.us\/wydot\/\">Wyoming DOT<\/a> have suspended clearance operations until the movement ceases (a good call in my view as continued work whilst this is so wet and unstable will only destabilise more material upslope, and endanger those involved). Once clearance operation start they are expected to last about five days.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone in the area provide any addition information about,\u00a0 or images of, the landslide?<\/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>Images and a wonderful time-lapse video of a landslide in Snake River Canyon near Jackson, Wyoming<!-- 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":3054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[534,469,959,48,533],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-earthflow","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-usa","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}