{"id":3583,"date":"2011-09-05T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2011-09-05T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T08:46:05","slug":"without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/05\/without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Without doubt the most amazing landslide of the year so far &#8211; Pingtung County, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat-tip to Chingying Tsou of Kyoto University for the heads up for this, and to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.swcb.gov.tw\/\">Soil and Water Conservation Bureau<\/a> in Taiwan, who have provided the information.\u00a0 They are putting together a report on this landslide, so I will leave the detail to them, but this is a small taster of what is to come.<\/p>\n<p>During the passage of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/08\/31\/garbage-dump-landslide-in-the-philippines\/\">typhoon Nanmadol<\/a> across Taiwan last week, a large landslide was triggered at Manchou in Pingtung County.\u00a0 This map Google Earth perspective view shows the location of the landslide:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3584\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/05\/without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan\/11_09-nanmadol-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3584\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-1.jpg 1444w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coordinates are: Lat 22.038, long 120.803 if you want to look this up.\u00a0 The mass movement, which is being called the Laufoshan Landslide, failed twice (on 29th and 31st August), with a reported runout distance of 6 km (corrected, but this is unverified at the moment).\u00a0 Fortunately no-one was killed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the source area of this remarkable landslide:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3587\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/05\/without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan\/11_09-nanmadol-3a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3587\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-3a-e1315207533760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the landslide track:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3588\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/05\/without-doubt-the-most-amazing-landslide-of-the-year-so-far-pingtung-county-taiwan\/11_09-nanmadol-2a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3588\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Nanmadol-2a-e1315207612440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will post a link to the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau information about this landslide as soon as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>First information about the Laufoshan Landslide in Taiwan, which occurred on 29th-31st August during typhoon Nanmadol.  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