{"id":370,"date":"2009-08-18T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/08\/18\/a-first-decent-view-of-the-shiaolin-hsiao-lin-landslide\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:06","slug":"a-first-decent-view-of-the-shiaolin-hsiao-lin-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/08\/18\/a-first-decent-view-of-the-shiaolin-hsiao-lin-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"A first decent view of the Shiaolin (Hsiao-Lin) Landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, apologies if my posts are a little sporadic (and if I am not replying to your emails).  I am currently on leave in the Swiss Alps.  However, I will continue to make short posts over the next fortnight, especially in light of the Taiwan landslides.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to Tsou Ching-Ying of Kyoto University for bringing to my attention a Youtube video of the Shiaolin site.  This is of course the village that was most seriously impacted by Typhoon Morakot.  The video appears to have been shot from a UAV.  The quality is a little marginal, but you will get a very clear impression of the landslide if you view it below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SCdsCkQ3pTg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SCdsCkQ3pTg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you cannot view it above it should be visible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gFp4I2iBAaU&amp;feature=related\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not really a mudslide as the media have described it.  It is a little hard to characterise from this view, but it looks to be a large-scale, catastrophic rock slope failure that has transitioned into a debris flow.  It appears to have had a long runout &#8211; I guess it is unsurprising that the loss of life was so high.<\/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, apologies if my posts are a little sporadic (and if I am not replying to your emails). I am currently on leave in the Swiss Alps. However, I will continue to make short posts over the next fortnight, especially in light of the Taiwan landslides. Thanks again to Tsou Ching-Ying of Kyoto University for bringing to my attention a Youtube video of the Shiaolin site. This is of course &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":[959,142,126,81,975],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-landslide-report","tag-morakot","tag-mudslide","tag-taiwan","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}