{"id":34901,"date":"2020-08-14T07:16:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=34901"},"modified":"2020-08-14T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:21:24","slug":"pettimudi-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/08\/14\/pettimudi-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"More information about the Pettimudi landslide in Rajmala, Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"

More information about the Pettimudi landslide in Rajmala, Kerala<\/h4>\n

A few days ago I wrote about the large landslide at Rajmala in Kerala, India late in the evening of 6 August 2020.<\/a>\u00a0 In the last few days more information has become available about the disaster.<\/p>\n

An interesting image of the landslide is the one below, which was posted on the Inquest website<\/a>, although the original source appears to be Mathrubhumi.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Pettimudi landslide in Kerala, India. Image from Mathrubhumi.com<\/a> via The Inquest<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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The image shows that this was a large, long runout channelised debris flow<\/a> that has followed an existing drainage line.\u00a0 The landslide appears to originate high on the slope in the forest. The tweet below, which uses an image from the photographer Sebinster Francis<\/a>, is a clear illustration of the length of the flow:<\/p>\n

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Death took this route at Pettimudi pic.twitter.com\/dgKY83KvID<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jisha Surya (@jishasurya) August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n