{"id":34332,"date":"2020-06-11T07:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=34332"},"modified":"2020-06-11T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:24:58","slug":"landslides-in-art-33-rossberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/06\/11\/landslides-in-art-33-rossberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 33: Vue du vallon entre le Rossberg e le Rigi apres la terrible catastrophe du 2e Septembre 1806"},"content":{"rendered":"

Landslides in Art Part 33: Vue du vallon entre le Rossberg e le Rigi apres la terrible catastrophe du 2e Septembre 1806<\/h4>\n

The British Museum collection includes a print of a painting<\/a> by Gaspar Rahn<\/span><\/a> entitled Vue du vallon entre le Rossberg e le Rigi apres la terrible catastrophe du 2e Septembre 1806<\/em>. This translates as View of the valley between Rossberg and Rigi after the terrible disaster of 2nd September 1806.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is the print:-<\/p>\n

\"1806

Vue du vallon entre le Rossberg e le Rigi apres la terrible catastrophe du 2e Septembre 1806.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This painting clearly shows a very large landslide with a long runout. The material involved in the failure is clearly mostly large rock blocks.\u00a0 Note in the foreground clear damage to buildings, and considerable strewn debris, suggesting that the landslide generated a displacement wave in Lake Lauerz<\/span>.<\/p>\n

This painting depicts of the aftermath of the so-called Goldau Landslide in Switzerland, which has featured in this series previously thanks to a painting by Joseph Mallord William (JMW) Turner<\/a>.\u00a0 As I noted then, the Goldau landslide was triggered by heavy rain, with an estimated volume of 120 million cubic metres, covering an area of about 20 square kilometres.\u00a0 The landslide, and the tsunami it created on Lake Lauerz, destroyed 111 houses, 220 farm buildings and two churches, resulting in the deaths of 457 people.\u00a0 There is a brief write up of the Goldau landslide on the Scientific American blog<\/a>, whilst another article on the same site<\/a> notes that this was the first landslide to be investigated in depth by geologists.<\/p>\n

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On reflection 1: Landslides at the start of the rainy season in China<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Xinhua is reporting multiple landslide fatalities<\/a> triggered by heavy rainfall in China. For example, in Baojing County in Hunan Province, heavy rainfall has triggered landslides and floods that have destroyed several village houses, killing six people, with a further person missing and three others injured.<\/p>\n

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On reflection 2: How medieval Europe recovered from\u00a0earthquakes<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Conversaton has a very nice article<\/a> on the ways in which societies in medieval Europe recovered from destruction earthquakes.\u00a0 The impact of coseismic landslides and rockfalls features heavily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Landslides in Art part 33: Vue du vallon entre le Rossberg e le Rigi apres la terrible catastrophe du 2e Septembre 1806 by Gaspar Rahn, which depicts the Goldau landslide in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,144,469,139,444],"class_list":["post-34332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-painting","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332","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=34332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}