{"id":3949,"date":"2011-11-21T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2011-11-21T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:30:19","slug":"collapse-of-the-san-pedro-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/11\/21\/collapse-of-the-san-pedro-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of the San Pedro landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the San Pedro landslide in California that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/11\/15\/interesting-coastal-landslide-in-san-pedro-california\/\">I highlighted last week<\/a> has now failed, with a substantial movement event that has caused complete destruction of the road.\u00a0 The final collapse, which happened on Sunday afternoon, appears to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_19378711\">associated with a rainstorm<\/a>, but as this is a progressive failure it is not really valid to define this as a trigger.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15819302\">BBC News has a nice video of the site<\/a>, whilst the Daily Breeze has a<a href=\"http:\/\/lang.dailybreeze.com\/photos\/photos.asp?a=1365655#id=1365655&amp;num=2\"> gallery of images<\/a>, including this one:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3950\" style=\"width: 663px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3950\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/11\/21\/collapse-of-the-san-pedro-landslide\/11_11-san-pedro-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3950\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3950\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/11\/11_11-San-Pedro-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/11\/11_11-San-Pedro-4.jpg 653w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/11\/11_11-San-Pedro-4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/lang.dailybreeze.com\/photos\/photos.asp?a=1365655#id=1365655&amp;num=2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The video suggests that there is still a substantial volume material in a quite precarious state on the slope, such that further large movements at the front (cliff side) of the slide are likely.\u00a0 For this reason it is important that the exclusion zone around the landslide, especially on the beach, is maintained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rebuilding the road on the existing alignment is likely to be very expensive at best.<\/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>A brief report of the final collapse of the San Pedro landslide in California.<!-- 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":3950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[137,469,48],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-california","tag-featured","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","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=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}