{"id":3611,"date":"2011-09-08T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T07:34:50","slug":"videos-of-a-large-rockfall-near-to-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/08\/videos-of-a-large-rockfall-near-to-christchurch\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos of a large rockfall near to Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting video of a deliberate rockfall in the Sumner area near to Christchurch has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/the-press\/news\/christchurch-earthquake-2011\/5499840\/250-tonne-rock-sent-crashing\">posted on this website<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately I cannot embed it, but this screenshot provides a general idea of what it is like:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3612\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/08\/videos-of-a-large-rockfall-near-to-christchurch\/11_09-sumner-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3612\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Sumner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Sumner-1.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/09\/11_09-Sumner-1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the result of a block being detached by work crews seeking to remove loose material generated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/08\/05\/landslides-from-the-christchurch-earthquakes-part-4-large-scale-cliff-collapses\/\">earthquake sequence earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rockfalls during clearance works at the same site are also shown in this video:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h_tZjT850qI<\/p>\n<p>The best section occurs between about 50 seconds and 1 minute 10 seconds.<\/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>Tow new videos showing rockfalls, triggered by clearance crews, in the Sumner area of New Zealand.<!-- 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":""},"categories":[537,29],"tags":[23,7,56,35],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","category-landslide-video","tag-earthquake","tag-new-zealand","tag-rockfall","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","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=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}