{"id":31215,"date":"2019-06-17T06:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=31215"},"modified":"2019-06-17T06:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:11:02","slug":"longyan-city-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2019\/06\/17\/longyan-city-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Longyan City: a dramatic landslide in deeply weathered soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Longyan City: a dramatic landslide in deeply weathered soil<\/h4>\n<p>On 13th June 2019 a strong rainstorm struck Longyan City in Fujian province, southern China, triggering a major landslide that was captured on CCTV. The video has been widely shared online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XumMu3vPUwA\">and is available on Youtube<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CCTV captures moment massive landslide occurs in Fujian, China\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XumMu3vPUwA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of many rainfall-induced incidents across southern China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-48637229\/china-floods-cause-a-landslide-in-the-fujian-province\">with reports on the BBC suggesting that up to 61 people have been killed<\/a>.\u00a0 The landslide in Longyan is reported to have killed one person, who was sitting in one of the cars.<\/p>\n<p>The still from the video below catches some of the key features of the landslide:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31226\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31226\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2019\/06\/19_06-Longyan-1-e1560750847853.jpg\" alt=\"Longyan City landslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The large landslide at Longyan city in Fujian Province in Xhina on 13th June 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XumMu3vPUwA\">Still from a video posted on Youtube by Xinhua \/ New China TV<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows that the landslide was very highly mobile, implying that the soil has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=liquefaction&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\">undergone liquefaction during failure<\/a>. The material is a deep red colour, implying that it consists of deeply weathered soil and regolith, which is not unusual in the humid, subtropical climate of the southern part of China.\u00a0 The interaction between the landslide and the vehicles is interesting &#8211; note that they are pushed forward by the landslide rather than being buried or inundated.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/12\/09\/saving-landslide-victims\/\">This illustrates the points that I made a dacade ago about rescuing the victims of landslides<\/a>.\u00a0 It is crucial to understand the landslide mechanism and type of flow as many (but by no means all) landslides tend to bulldoze objects in their path, rather than burying them <em>in situ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In this case it will be interesting to understand better the underlying causes of the landslide.\u00a0 The failure appears to have swept down a slope that is at least partially vegetated, although that vegetation does not look like original forest to me.\u00a0 I wonder if the slope was but in order to create the bench for the road?<\/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>On 13th June 2019 a strong rainstorm struck Longyan City in Fujian province, southern China, triggering a major landslide that was captured on CCTV.<!-- 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":31226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16,881,469,963,24402],"class_list":["post-31215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-landslide-video","tag-weathered-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31215","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=31215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}