{"id":4040,"date":"2011-12-16T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2011-12-16T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:09:19","slug":"a-spate-of-landslides-in-nelson-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/12\/16\/a-spate-of-landslides-in-nelson-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"A spate of landslides in Nelson, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of posts this week &#8211; the first week back after a trip away is always busy, and this one seems to have been particularly manic.\u00a0 So this is a quick post about an event this week in New Zealand.\u00a0 Here, heavy rainfall during the week in the Nelson area of South Island triggered several landslides (thanks to Garth Williamson and Nick Dunlop, who tipped me off about this &#8211; much appreciated).\u00a0 There is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nelson-mail\/photos\/6143627\/Nelson-flood-gallery\">set of images here<\/a> and a more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nelson-mail\/6141806\/Crisis-as-flooding-slips-force-evacuations-in-Nelson\">detailed news report of the aftermath<\/a> here.\u00a0 The image below shows one of the many landslides:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4041\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4041\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/12\/16\/a-spate-of-landslides-in-nelson-new-zealand\/11_12-nelson-landslides\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4041\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/12\/11_12-Nelson-landslides.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/12\/11_12-Nelson-landslides.jpg 599w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2011\/12\/11_12-Nelson-landslides-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nelson-mail\/photos\/6143627\/Nelson-flood-gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/national\/93885\/red-stickers-on-nelson-and-tasman-homes\">This report<\/a> suggests that this was the heaviest rainfall in this area for 40 years, and that 185 landslides occurred in the Nelson area alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 on a set of landslides that occurred this week in the Nelson area of New Zealand<!-- 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":4041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[959,7],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-landslide-report","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","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=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}