{"id":40354,"date":"2022-03-08T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=40354"},"modified":"2022-03-08T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T07:30:10","slug":"raini-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/03\/08\/raini-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Raini: the forgotten victims of the Chamoli disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Raini: the forgotten victims of the Chamoli disaster<\/h4>\n<p>Last month saw the first anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=chamoli&amp;submit.x=44&amp;submit.y=11&amp;mswhere=blog\">Chamoli rockslide and debris flow disaster in northern India<\/a>.\u00a0 Inevitably attention has moved onto to other concerns, although the damage caused by the disaster has yet to be repaired.\u00a0 Earlier this week, the journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Upadhyay_Cavita\">Kavita Upadhyay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Upadhyay_Cavita\/status\/1500392010234040321\">tweeted some images of the aftermath of the disaster<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Gaura Devi&#39;s famous Raini village known for the Chipko movement. It is sinking and sliding, a glimpse of which can be seen in the photograph. The use of explosives for the Rishiganga dam had made Raini vulnerable, &amp; after last year&#39;s disaster, it has become uninhabitable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s4iwPXDwzf\">pic.twitter.com\/s4iwPXDwzf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kavita Upadhyay (@Upadhyay_Cavita) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Upadhyay_Cavita\/status\/1500392010234040321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the thread was the image above the village of Raini, which continues to suffer serious landslide issues in the aftermath of the debris flow.\u00a0 As Kavita notes, Raini was suffering substantial problems even before the disaster, possibly linked to environmental damage caused by the construction works for the hydroelectric scheme.\u00a0 The debris flow has most likely eroded the toe of the slope, triggering largescale movement that is now impacting most of the village.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Earth image below was collected in the immediate aftermath of the Chamoli disaster.\u00a0 It shows Raini perched on the slopes above the river.\u00a0 The slope looks highly unstable:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40357\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40357\" class=\" wp-image-40357\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Raini-1.jpg\" alt=\"Google Earth image of the village of Raini in northern India\" width=\"799\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Raini-1.jpg 1215w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Raini-1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Raini-1-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Raini-1-768x608.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Earth image of the village of Raini in northern India in the immediate aftermath of the Chamoli disaster.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the summer, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/uttarakhands-raini-village-declared-unstable-and-unsuitable-for-habitation-101627995151451.html\">Hindustan Times highlighted the ongoing concerns about Raini<\/a>.\u00a0 It quotes a report compiled by geologists working for the Uttarakhand Disaster Recovery Initiative (UDRI):-<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Raini village is facing serious slope stability problems where the whole area is affected by active subsidence whereas downslope is affected by toe erosion. During investigation wide cracks were observed in the walls and floors of many houses indicating active slope movement in the area. It is therefore advisable to rehabilitate Raini village to an alternative safe location.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Relocation of the village is inevitably the preferred option, but this is being resisted by the inhabitants of the village.\u00a0 This is understandable &#8211; relocation is a deeply traumatic experience that often leads to very adverse outcomes for those affected.<\/p>\n<p>As we head towards the 2022 monsoon, the situation for Raini is likely to become acute once again.\u00a0 For the population, the legacy of the Chamoli disaster is permanent dislocation.<\/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 year on from the Chamoli disaster in India, the population of the village of Raini continue to face severe impacts from landslides initiated by the debris flow<!-- 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":40357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30614,469,5,959,624,72],"class_list":["post-40354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-chamoli","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-relocation","tag-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354","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=40354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}