{"id":40491,"date":"2022-03-28T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=40491"},"modified":"2022-03-28T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:50:44","slug":"ibri-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/03\/28\/ibri-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibri: a large quarry landslide in Al-Dhahirah, Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Ibri: a large quarry landslide in Al-Dhahirah, Oman<\/h4>\n<p>On 27 March 2022 a series of large quarry landslides occurred at Ibri in Al-Dhahirah governorate in Oman.\u00a0 This event was captured on a dramatic video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/dUrnoT8f5Tk\">posted to Youtube<\/a> that I have tweeted to enable an embed here:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ibri quarry mishap: Death toll rises to 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Ord3huYrH\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Ord3huYrH<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Petley (@davepetley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davepetley\/status\/1508326542992191488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 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>There are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcSQyB1z7ms\">videos showing later stages of the landslide sequence:-<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d12\u0d2e\u0d3e\u0d28\u0d3f\u0d7d \u0d15\u0d4d\u0d35\u0d3e\u0d31\u0d3f\u0d2f\u0d3f\u0d32\u0d46 \u0d24\u0d4a\u0d34\u0d3f\u0d32\u0d3e\u0d33\u0d3f\u0d15\u0d33\u0d41\u0d1f\u0d46\u0d2e\u0d47\u0d7d \u0d2a\u0d3e\u0d31 \u0d07\u0d1f\u0d3f\u0d1e\u0d4d\u0d1e\u0d41\u0d35\u0d40\u0d23\u0d41 \u0d06\u0d31\u0d41\u0d2e\u0d30\u0d23\u0d02 \u200b\u200b| Oman | Quarry Accident\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcSQyB1z7ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The image below, from AP, shows one of the later slope collapses:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40496\" style=\"width: 807px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40496\" class=\" wp-image-40496\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Ibri-1.jpg\" alt=\"The 27 March 2022 quarry landslide at Ibri in Oman.\" width=\"797\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Ibri-1.jpg 806w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Ibri-1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/03\/22_03-Ibri-1-768x360.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The 27 March 2022 quarry landslide at Ibri in Oman. Image from AP via the Daily Sabah.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that six people were killed in this landslide and that a further five were injured.\u00a0 The rescue and recovery operations were severely hampered by the ongoing rockslide activity.\u00a0 It is unclear as to whether all of the victims have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Ibri is a centre for marble quarrying, which is consistent with the stepped structure of the rock mass seen on the left side of the image above.<\/p>\n<p>The marble quarries of Oman are not without controversy.\u00a0 In 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/world\/gulf\/oman\/social-media-users-campaign-against-quarry-owners-in-oman-1.1644392\">the Gulf News reported that quarries in the Ibri area were owned by government minsters<\/a>, with the products being exported, with low rates of tax being paid, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Catastrophic failures in marble quarries are comparatively rare because the regular jointing can make prediction of the likelihood on instability easier when compared with other rock masses.\u00a0 However, in 2016 there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/04\/15\/colonnata-1\/\">fatal collapse of a marble quarry at Colonnata in Italy<\/a>, where the famous Carrara marble was being extracted.\u00a0 In that case, two workers lost their lives.<\/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>Ibri: on 27 March 2022 a large landslide in a marble quarry in Al-Dhahirah, Oman killed six workers and injured  a further five people.<!-- 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":40496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27393],"tags":[469,959,907,299,205,28931],"class_list":["post-40491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mining","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-middle-east","tag-mine","tag-mining","tag-oman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491","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=40491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}