{"id":40062,"date":"2022-01-28T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=40062"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T08:30:50","slug":"seri-kembangan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/01\/28\/seri-kembangan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Seri Kembangan: an impressive cut slope failure in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Seri Kembangan: an impressive cut slope failure in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<\/h4>\n<p>On 25 January 2022 a large cut slope failure occurred on the banks of a drainage channel in Seri Kembangan, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.\u00a0 This event was notable because it was caught by local people on a set of spectacular videos.\u00a0 For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VVJJZD4TIXI\">this one provides a good perspective on the event from two different viewpoints<\/a>, and includes some images of the aftermath:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Landslip in Seri Kembangan sends parked cars tumbling\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVJJZD4TIXI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>In the second video in the above compilation a driver can be seen rescuing a car a few seconds before the collapse.\u00a0 That was a lucky escape.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2022\/01\/26\/cracks-seen-on-ground-before-seri-kembangan-landslide-happened-says-eyewitness\">Reports indicate that cracks formed in the road in the hour or so ahead of the collapse<\/a>, and that a number of other cars were moved before the videos started,<\/p>\n<p>The site of the collapse, Jalan LP 1A\/2 Lestari Perdana, Serdang, is shown in the Google Streetview image from January last year:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40067\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40067\" class=\" wp-image-40067\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1.jpg\" alt=\"The site of the collapse at Seri Kembangan\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1.jpg 1554w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-1-1536x878.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of the collapse at Seri Kembangan in Malaysia. Image from Google Streetview.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note the poor state of repair of the site and the patches in the road surface.\u00a0 The best image that I&#8217;ve tracked down of the aftermath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmetro.com.my\/mutakhir\/2022\/01\/804061\/bomba-polis-pantau-lokasi-tanah-mendap-metrotv\">is this one, from MyMetro<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40069\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40069\" class=\" wp-image-40069\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-2.jpg\" alt=\"The aftermath of the landslide at Seri Kembangan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/01\/22_01-KL-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aftermath of the landslide at Seri Kembangan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmetro.com.my\/mutakhir\/2022\/01\/804061\/bomba-polis-pantau-lokasi-tanah-mendap-metrotv\">Image from MyMetro, taken by Aizuddin Saad<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>News reports indicate that works are now underway to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2022\/01\/26\/seri-kembangan-landslide-mbsj-to-reinforce-bank-with-steel-piles\">secure the site with sheet piles whilst a permanent solution is found.<\/a>\u00a0 This is a pragmatic approach &#8211; note the arcuate cracks extending through the road surface in the image above.\u00a0 There are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2022\/01\/766635\/govt-urged-conduct-annual-safety-audits-areas-prone-landslides\">calls now for an enhanced safety regime from slopes in Malaysia<\/a>, along the lines of the processes in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways this is reminiscent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/05\/02\/baltimore-retaining-wall\/\">2014 retaining wall collapse in Charles Town, Baltimore, which also sent cars tumbling into a drainage channel<\/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>On 25 January 2022 a large cut slope failure occurred on the banks of a drainage channel in Seri Kembangan, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia<!-- 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":40069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,376,959,963,244,27],"class_list":["post-40062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-malaysia","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062","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=40062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}