{"id":36744,"date":"2021-02-18T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=36744"},"modified":"2021-02-18T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:02:55","slug":"chunchi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2021\/02\/18\/chunchi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A GIS-based map of the Chunchi landslide in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

A GIS-based map of the Chunchi landslide in Ecuador<\/h4>\n

On Twitter<\/a>, Angel Valdiviezo<\/a> of the Scuela Superior Polit\u00e9cnica Nacional (ESPOL) has highlighted<\/a> a GIS based system that has been set up to compile information<\/a> about the Chunchi landslide in Ecuador<\/a>.\u00a0 Included in the data in this system is an aerial image of the landslide site, which starts to provide insight into the situation. The portal is attributed to attributed to the Servicio Nacional de Gesti\u00f3n de Riesgos y Emergencias \/ Instituto Geogr\u00e1fico Militar, who should be commended for getting this information online. This is the aerial image:-<\/p>\n

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A vertical aerial photograph of the Chunchi landslide. Image uploaded to an online GIS portal attributed to the Servicio Nacional de Gesti\u00f3n de Riesgos y Emergencias \/ Instituto Geogr\u00e1fico Militar<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I thought it would be helpful to label the major features on first inspection.\u00a0 I would welcome comments:-<\/p>\n

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Annotated vertical aerial photograph of the Chunchi landslide. Image uploaded to an online GIS portal attributed to the Servicio Nacional de Gesti\u00f3n de Riesgos y Emergencias \/ Instituto Geogr\u00e1fico Militar<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are two major headscarps in this landslide, which has a reported volume of about 30 million cubic metres<\/a>.\u00a0 The one to the east appears to be retrogressive, the one to the southeast is rotational.\u00a0 Downslope from both there are large rafts of essentially intact land.\u00a0 There is a minor scarp to the north, and an areas of what appears to be very large tension cracks.\u00a0 I have drawn in an approximate boundary between the two flows from the major scarps.\u00a0 Downslope the landslide material us very heavily disrupted, which is consistent with the videos.<\/p>\n

To the south there is small lake caused by the blockage of the valley.<\/p>\n

The most likely mechanism is that one of the two major failure areas developed, driving the static liquefaction in the lower part of the slope.\u00a0 This then debutressed (unloaded the toe) of the other major failure.\u00a0 My hunch would be that it was the retrogressive failure that developed first, but it could be the other way around.<\/p>\n

A third hypothesis is that a smaller failure developed lower on the slope, triggering a chain reaction upslope as the materials weakened.<\/p>\n

This could only be resolved with fieldwork and eyewitness accounts.\u00a0 Sadly, Covid-19 is likely to hamper this work, but hopefully a locally-based team will be able to study it in detail.\u00a0 This is a landslide that justifies a detailed publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With thanks to @Angel_V_A for highlighting it, there is now a fantastic GIS-based map of the Chunchi landslide in Ecuador online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":36750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[464,469,30616,959,122],"class_list":["post-36744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-images","tag-ecuador","tag-featured","tag-gis","tag-landslide-report","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744","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=36744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}