{"id":3384,"date":"2011-07-28T01:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T01:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T08:57:21","slug":"first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"First images of the Korean landslides plus data on recent landslide losses in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/unbelievable-do-watch-this-amateur-footage-of-the-landslides-in-seoul\/\">Update: don&#8217;t miss the video of the Seoul landslides here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/national\/2011\/07\/27\/64\/0302000000AEN20110727012851315F.HTML\">Yonhap News<\/a> has published a photograph of what I think is the site of the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/27\/devastating-landslides-in-south-korea-and-fears-of-more-to-come\/\"> landslide in Chuncheon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3385\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/11_07-s-korea-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-3.jpg 332w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-3-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.kma.go.kr\/eng\/weather\/images\/radar.jsp\">current rain radar image for Korea<\/a> suggests that heavy rainfall is continuing to fall over the affected areas:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3386\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/11_07-s-korea-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-4.png 646w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-4-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fatality-inducing landslides do occur fairly often in South Korea.\u00a0 The graph below shows the data from the Durham fatal landslide database for this country for the period 2004 to the present, excluding the events yesterday.\u00a0 In this time, 19 landslides have claimed a total of 80 lives.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3387\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/11_07-s-korea-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3387\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-5.png 506w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-5-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a>Landslides in S. Korea do seem to show a remarkably strong seasonality in South Korea.\u00a0 The graph below shows the recorded incidence of fatality-inducing landslides by month.\u00a0 It is clear that July is the peak period:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3388\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/11_07-s-korea-6\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3389\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/07\/28\/first-images-of-the-korean-landslides-plus-data-on-recent-landslide-losses-in-korea\/11_07-s-korea-6-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3389\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-61.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-61.png 494w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/07\/11_07-S-Korea-61-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/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>Update: don&#8217;t miss the video of the Seoul landslides here Yonhap News has published a photograph of what I think is the site of the landslide in Chuncheon: Meanwhile, the current rain radar image for Korea suggests that heavy rainfall is continuing to fall over the affected areas: Fatality-inducing landslides do occur fairly often in South Korea.\u00a0 The graph below shows the data from the Durham fatal landslide database for &hellip;<!-- 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":3387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,469,959,52],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-database","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","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=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}