{"id":37440,"date":"2021-04-19T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=37440"},"modified":"2021-04-19T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T08:04:43","slug":"bandah-genaveh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2021\/04\/19\/bandah-genaveh\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides from the 18 April 2021 M 5.9 earthquake near to Bandar Genaveh, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Landslides from the 18 April 2021 M 5.9 earthquake near to Bandar Genaveh, Iran<\/h4>\n<p>On 18 April 2021 a M=5.9 earthquake struck the port city of Bandar Genaveh in Iran.\u00a0 The earthquake was centred on the town of Bandah Rig.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/magnitude-59-earthquake-hits-southern-iran-no-casualties-reported-tv-2021-04-18\/\">There are some reports of damage in Bandah Genaveh, and five people were injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of videos have been posted of landslides triggered by the earthquake.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7GNmA4asowk\">The best one is on Youtube<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fall of mountains around Genaveh due to earthquake\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7GNmA4asowk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Inland from Bandah Genaveh there is a steep escarpment running sub-parallel to the coast:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37443\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37443\" class=\" wp-image-37443\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Google Earth image of the topography of the area inland of Bandah Genaveh, site of the 18 April 2021 earthquake\" width=\"799\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-1536x981.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-1-2048x1308.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth image of the topography of the area inland of Bandah Genaveh, site of the 18 April 2021 earthquake.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the landslides have been triggered from this escarpment.<\/p>\n<p>The video is very dramatic, but for the most part these are likely to have been shallow slides of quite low volume.\u00a0 The very arid conditions means that such slides generate very large quantities of dust, which looks dramatic in the videos.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it is likely that coseismic landslides are an important part of the erosive processes in this area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=145REkc4vX8\">There are other videos of this event on Youtube<\/a>.\u00a0 One of them presents a compendium of events, although I am not sure whether they are all from this earthquake.\u00a0 It includes a sequence that includes this still:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37445\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37445\" class=\" wp-image-37445\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2.jpg\" alt=\"The landslides close of Bandah Genaveh in Iran on 18 April 2021.  \" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2.jpg 2492w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2-1536x785.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/04\/21_04-Iran-2-2048x1047.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The landslides close of Bandah Genaveh in Iran on 18 April 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=145REkc4vX8\">Still from a video posted to Youtube<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The image above does appear to be the same event as that posted in the first video, but providing a much closer view of the landslides.<\/p>\n<p>An analogy for this event is probably the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/06\/dust-cloud-video-indicates-substantial-numbers-of-landslides-from-the-baja-california-earthquake-in-mexico\/\">2010 M=7.2 Sierra Cucupah earthquake in Mexico, which also triggered landslides in an arid mountain chain<\/a>.\u00a0 Led by my former post-doc John Barlow, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/12\/17\/sierra-cucapah\/\">we investigated the landslides from that event<\/a>.\u00a0 There is a description in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0169555X14005662?via%3Dihub\">Barlow <em>et al.<\/em> (2014)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h4>Reference and acknowledgement<\/h4>\n<p>Many thanks to loyal reader Andrew Noad, who kindly highlighted these videos to me.<\/p>\n<p>Barlow, J., Barisin, I., Rosser, N., Petley, D.,\u00a0 Densmore, A. and Wright, T. 2014.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0169555X14005662?via%3Dihub\"> Seismically-induced mass movements and volumetric fluxes resulting from the 2010 Mw\u00a0=\u00a07.2 earthquake in the Sierra Cucapah, Mexico<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Geomorphology<\/em>, <strong>230<\/strong>, 138-145. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geomorph.2014.11.012\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.geomorph.2014.11.012<\/a>.<\/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>Landslides from the 18 April 2021 M 5.9 earthquake near to Bandar Genaveh, Iran On 18 April 2021 a M=5.9 earthquake struck the port city of Bandar Genaveh in Iran.\u00a0 The earthquake was centred on the town of Bandah Rig.\u00a0 There are some reports of damage in Bandah Genaveh, and five people were injured. 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