{"id":3179,"date":"2011-06-09T05:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2011-06-09T05:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:47:03","slug":"some-notable-landslides-in-the-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/06\/09\/some-notable-landslides-in-the-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Some notable landslides in the last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I noted in my previous post<\/a>, we are now just entering the global landslide season.\u00a0 In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last week:<\/p>\n

1. Heavy rains in Haiti<\/strong><\/p>\n

The potentially strong hurricane season in 2011 is a real concern for the earthquake affected areas in Haiti.\u00a0 With vast numbers of people still living in temporary camps, the all the ingredients in the recipe are in place for a major disaster; it is depressing that progress is so slow.\u00a0 Heavy rains at the start of the week served to highlight the vulnerability, with 25 people reportedly being killed<\/a> in floods and landslides.\u00a0 A further person was reportedly killed in the Dominican Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. A quarry landslide in Vietnam<\/strong><\/p>\n

A large mudslide killed two women in a quarry in Chu Trinh Commune in Cao Bang.\u00a0 The report suggests<\/a> that it took 12 days to recover their bodies.<\/p>\n

3. Blockage the Karakoram Highway in Pari, Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Karakoram Highway was blocked<\/a> on 30th May by a large landslide, possibly resulting from road widening works.\u00a0 At the time of the report the road had been blocked for five days, and was expected to remain in that state for a further two.<\/p>\n

4. A large earthflow in Keene Valley, New York State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to the several people who highlighted an interesting large, creeping landslide in the Keene valley in New York state, USA, which is causing damage to a number of houses on Porter Mountain.\u00a0 The Geology in Motion blog has a nice post<\/a> on this event.<\/p>\n

5. A cloud burst in Indian Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Initial reports this morning suggest<\/a> that there may have been a substantial cloud burst-induced event in the Baggar area on the Batote-Kishtwar highway.\u00a0 The initial reports suggest that a substantial portion of highway, including vehicles and shops, were destroyed in landslides.\u00a0 The reported death toll is three, with many more feared to be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I noted in my previous post, we are now just entering the global landslide season.\u00a0 In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last …<\/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":[5,959,10,48,272],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-pakistan","tag-usa","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}