A large failure occurred at Poovanchi<\/a>, destroying five houses and killing at least seven people.\u00a0 The Indian Express has a good image of the landslide<\/a>:<\/p>\n The 16 October 2021 landslide at Poovanchi in Kerala India. Image by EPS, Albin Mathew, via the Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n The landslide is apparently about 500 m long. The Indian Express article links the failure to unregulated local quarrying:<\/p>\n But was that purely an instance of natural calamity? Not necessarily. Local people suspect the landslide in Poovanchi has more to do with man\u2019s greed than nature\u2019s fury. Poovanchi is located in an area made fragile by unregulated quarrying. A hill in the remote village has more than two quarries. The granite quarry on the opposite side of the hill, where the landslide happened, has scooped out a portion equal to what was lost to the landslide.<\/em><\/p>\n Unfortunately I am unable to find an image of the source area to verify whether quarrying might have played a role.<\/p>\n A further significant landslide occurred at Kavali in Koottikkal in Kerala<\/a>, in which six people were killed:-<\/p>\n The landslide at Kavali in Koottikkal in Kerala, India, which killed six people. Image by EPS, Vishnu Prathap, via the Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n Three of the people killed were children, aged 14, 12 and 10.<\/p>\n Kerala, located on the west side of India, frequently suffers from landslides during the monsoon.\u00a0 However, this event is comparatively late in the annual cycle.\u00a0 It appears that the heavy rainfall is now subsiding, which should allow the recovery operations to be completed. Heavy rainfall has affected other areas of South Asia in recent years. The Melamchi area of Nepal has once again suffered from serious damage<\/a>, and there are warnings of rainfall across other areas of Nepal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heavy rainfall in Kerala, SW India, since Friday has triggered landslides and floods that have killed at least 26 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,5,19111,959,979],"class_list":["post-39311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-kerala","tag-landslide-report","tag-monsoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39311","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=39311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2021\/10\/21_10-Kerala-1.jpg\")
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