{"id":40003,"date":"2022-01-20T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=40003"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:04:49","slug":"slab-topple-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/01\/20\/slab-topple-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A large rock slab topple from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A large rock slab topple from India<\/h4>\n<p>The video below, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-a5Ikd1z8zI\">posted to Youtube<\/a>, occurred at about 4:10 pm on 7 January 2022.\u00a0 It shows <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=topple&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\">a slab topple<\/a> in a coherent slice of rock:-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Landslide near Ban Toll Plaza Caught On CCTV\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-a5Ikd1z8zI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The location is reportedly the Ban Toll Plaza in Jammu and Kashmir in India, which is situated on the NH-44 road between Samba and Kunjwani.\u00a0 The location is 32.838, 74.940.\u00a0 It appears clearly on Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>There is little further information about this landslide, but it was associated with heavy rainfall.\u00a0 The slab topple appears to be a single, surprisingly coherent, slab of rock:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40008\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40008\" class=\"wp-image-40008\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1.jpg\" alt=\"The slab rock topple at Ban Toll Plaza in Jammu and Kahsmir, India. \" width=\"798\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1.jpg 1884w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-Ban-Toll-Plaza-1-1536x872.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The slab rock topple at Ban Toll Plaza in Jammu and Kahsmir, India. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-a5Ikd1z8zI\">Still from a video posted to Youtube<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the release plane was a pre-existing, near vertical joint.\u00a0 It is extremely fortunate there was empty space in the impact zone.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of this joint should have been picked up in the geotechnical investigations when the road was constructed.\u00a0 However, sub-vertical rock joints can be difficult to detect in rock joint surveys as they do not appear on the vertical face of the outcrop.<\/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>CCTV footage has been posted online of an unusual and interesting large rock slab topple from Jammu and Kashmir in India <!-- 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,103,5,959,27,72,540,35],"class_list":["post-40003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-highway","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-road","tag-south-asia","tag-topple","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003","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=40003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}