{"id":361,"date":"2009-09-02T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/09\/02\/new-images-of-the-shiaolin-landslide-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:05","slug":"new-images-of-the-shiaolin-landslide-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/09\/02\/new-images-of-the-shiaolin-landslide-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"New images of the Shiaolin landslide in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest landslide triggered by typhoon Morakot occurred at Shiaolin in Kiaosiung County.  It is estimated that 450 people died in this landslide.  Until now I have been struggling to find a decent image of the slide itself, apart from the poor quality aerial photography and drone video that I have highlighted previously.  However, I have today come across the following three images on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etaiwannews.com\/etn\/news_content.php?id=1031862&amp;lang=eng_news\">Taiwan News website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-Taiwan-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 259px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-Taiwan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-Taiwan-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 265px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-Taiwan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms\">Click on the images for a better view in a new window.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The failure is a little difficult to interpret.  It is possible that it is a very large-scale translational slide, with a large about of erosion into the scarp to form the channel structure.  Alternatively, there could be an element of a wedge failure here, but if so it is surprisingly deep.  The slide looks to have been very high energy, and thus very destructive, in the lower part of the track.<\/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>The largest landslide triggered by typhoon Morakot occurred at Shiaolin in Kiaosiung County. It is estimated that 450 people died in this landslide. Until now I have been struggling to find a decent image of the slide itself, apart from the poor quality aerial photography and drone video that I have highlighted previously. However, I have today come across the following three images on the Taiwan News website: Click on &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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}