{"id":3561,"date":"2011-08-30T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:14:29","slug":"serious-landslides-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/08\/30\/serious-landslides-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious landslides in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whilst attention has been focused on the effects of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Nanmadol (which is currently making landfall in China), a substantial landslide disaster in Uganda yesterday has been scarcely reported.\u00a0 Heavy rainfall affected the slopes on Mount Elgon, a large volcano located on the border between Kenya and Uganda.\u00a0 This is an area that was heavily affected by landslides on 1st March last year<\/a>, resulting in 358 fatalities (see a description of this event, with images, here<\/a>).\u00a0 There is some confusion about the magnitude of loss of life in the most recent event.\u00a0 The Ugandan newspaper the Daily Monitor reports<\/a> that 43 people may have been killed in two landslides, although other estimates in the same article suggest lower totals. New Vision<\/a> reports that 36 bodies have been recovered to date.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Xinhua<\/a> has an illustrated account that indicates that the total may exceed 50 people. The main location of the landslides appears to be Sisiyi and Buluganya sub- counties in eastern Bulambuli District.\u00a0 Unfortunately, further heavy rainfall is forecast in the area.<\/p>\n

The causes of this sequence of landslides are not entirely clear, but deforestation and rapid population growth<\/a> in an area of fragile volcanic soils may well be significant factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports are coming in of two landslides in Uganda yesterday that together have killed over 25, and possibly over 50, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,959,557],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-landslide-report","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}