{"id":30794,"date":"2019-04-20T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T08:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=30794"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:55:57","slug":"taroko-gorge-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2019\/04\/20\/taroko-gorge-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video of a very near-miss with a co-seismic rockfall in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video of a very near-miss with a co-seismic rockfall in Taiwan<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us700038c1\/executive\">A magnitude 6.1 earthquake<\/a> struck eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=taiwan&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\">Taiwan<\/a> on Thursday 18th April 2019 at at 13:01 local time.&nbsp; This shallow earthquake shook the extraordinarily beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjFhc29nd7hAhU4UxUIHWrbD6QQFjADegQIAhAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.taroko.gov.tw%2Fen&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xfvqZ0677DYblxiiSqFcr\">Taroko Gorge in eastern Taiwan<\/a>, a major tourist attraction with very tall, very steep slopes above a major highway.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mpZiys8U8k\">A dashcam video has been posted to Youtube<\/a>, shot by a motorist on the road at the time of the earthquake.&nbsp; Unsurprisingly, the earthquake triggered large numbers of rockfalls.&nbsp; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mpZiys8U8k\">dashcam video<\/a> captures a near-miss event that was extraordinarily close to being a tragedy:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mpZiys8U8k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The video hits the road just in front of the car, and then fragments and bounces, with the debris flying over the top of the vehicle.&nbsp; Note that further rockfalls also occur:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30801\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/04\/19_04-Taroko-Gorge-1-e1555747499170.jpg\" alt=\"Taroko Gorge\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\"\/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A near-miss with a boulder in Taroko Gorge, Taiwan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mpZiys8U8k\">A still from a Youtube video posted by Taiwan News.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3683654\">Taiwan News has some detail about this event<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the video, a couple is casually driving on a sunny day through the Luoshao Road Section of Provincial Highway 8 in Taroko National Park. When the car reaches approximately the 153 to 161-kilometer mark, the driver feels the road start to shake, and in a twist of fate, he decides to pull over briefly, possibly buying precious seconds that saved his life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video has a date and time stamp in the footer that suggest that it is genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3683026\">two hikers were struck by falling rocks in Taroko Gorge<\/a>.&nbsp; One of these individuals, a Malaysian national, suffered serious injuries. There is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gz6yCeg9New\">nice video of an earthquake-triggered rockfall elsewhere in eastern Taiwan<\/a>, in this case at Qingshui Cliffs:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gz6yCeg9New?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that similar events have occurred on the steep slopes in Hualien County, but I have seen no reports of large landslides to date.<\/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>Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video has been posted to Youtube showing a very near-miss with an earthquake-triggered rockfall in Taiwan <!-- 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":30801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23,469,959,963,56,81],"class_list":["post-30794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-rockfall","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30794","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=30794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}