{"id":39147,"date":"2021-10-06T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=39147"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:33:13","slug":"heishui-a-rockslide-at-a-tunnel-portal-in-sichuan-province-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2021\/10\/06\/heishui-a-rockslide-at-a-tunnel-portal-in-sichuan-province-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Heishui: a rockslide at a tunnel portal in Sichuan Province, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heishui: a rockslide at a tunnel portal in Sichuan Province, China<\/h4>\n

Loyal reader Mark Shore has kindly highlighted an interesting rockslide that was caught on video in Heishui County, in Sichuan Province<\/a> in China<\/a>.\u00a0 The landslide apparently occurred on 30 September 2021.\u00a0 The two tweets below capture the event:-<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/timbaland57\/status\/1443838235327803399<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/meteoredit\/status\/1444006701145993219<\/p>\n

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Whilst the video below captures the aftermath<\/a> and, at the end, some further landslide activity:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FDTO267hSJo<\/p>\n

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Clearly this type of event is exceptionally dangerous – it is perhaps surprising that there is no apparent landslide mitigation on the slope or around the portal given the obvious potential for rockslides at this site.\u00a0 According to a report in NTDTV.com<\/a>, in Mandarin, the landslide occurred at 9:20 am at the\u00a0entrance of the\u00a0Xi’er\u00a0Tunnel\u00a0of National Highway 347 in Heishui County,\u00a0Aba Prefecture,\u00a0Sichuan.\u00a0 There were no casualties, but a transformer and a car were damaged.<\/p>\n

Some reports suggest that an accident was avoided<\/a> because a security officer at the site raised the alarm.<\/p>\n

Mark has identified the likely location for the landslide, which is at 32.080\u00b0 N, 103.181\u00b0 E:-<\/p>\n

\"Google

Google Earth image of the location of the 30 September 2021 rockslide at Heishui in Sichuan Province, China.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clearly this is a location with a high incidence of landslides, but it seems like that the slope above the tunnel portal shown in the Google Earth image has been quarried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting and potentially very dangerous rockslide was caught on video in Heishui, in Sichuan Province in China. Fortunately there were no casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,469,103,959,27,136,132,355],"class_list":["post-39147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-china","tag-featured","tag-highway","tag-landslide-report","tag-road","tag-rockslide","tag-sichuan","tag-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147","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=39147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}