{"id":3629,"date":"2011-09-16T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2011-09-20T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:29:32","slug":"catching-up-part-1-the-landslide-at-pingtung-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/09\/16\/catching-up-part-1-the-landslide-at-pingtung-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up part 1: The landslide at Pingtung in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

having spent the last week essentially out of contact in Torridon<\/a> in the Highlands of Scotland, I am going to try to catch up again over the next few days.\u00a0 There has been a great deal going on in my absence!\u00a0 So, to start off, a brief update on the Pingtung landslide in Taiwan that I featured last week<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to Ching-Ying Tsou for pointing out that the Soil and Water Conservation in Taiwan now have a poster online about the event at this location<\/a>.\u00a0 The key information seems to be that the landslide occurred in three stages, first at 7 am on 29th August, then at 6 pm on the 30th and again at 3pm on the 31st.\u00a0 Perhaps the most interesting element is the graph showing the rainfall record for the site:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The bar graph is the hourly precipitation, using the left scale.\u00a0 The dots are I think a measure of effective rainfall, but I am unsure as to how this was calculated.\u00a0 Note that there was one hour on the 29th August when rainfall exceeded 100 mm (4 inches) in an hour!\u00a0 The first failure occurred shortly after this event.\u00a0 However, the other two failures occurred significantly later, indeed when the main component of the rainfall associated with the typhoon had ceased and even the effective rainfall measure was declining.<\/p>\n

These apparently delayed failure events are common in large landslides, reflecting a range of factors including the time taken for the rainfall to raise groundwater level and the time taken for the development of a failure surface.\u00a0 This is a very important consideration in the development of warning systems for landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further information about the Pingtung landslide in Taiwan in late August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,1],"tags":[959,81,975],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-report","category-typhoon","category-uncategorized","tag-landslide-report","tag-taiwan","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","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=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}