{"id":40693,"date":"2022-04-19T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=40693"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:48:09","slug":"kantagnos-village-landslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/04\/19\/kantagnos-village-landslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet image of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planet image of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines<\/h4>\n

My friends at Planet<\/a> have very kindly acquired a high resolution satellite image of the Kantagnos landslide<\/a> in the Philippines, which occurred during Tropical Storm Megi \/ Agaton on 11 April 2022<\/a>.\u00a0 This image, which shows most of the the landslide, was captured on 17 April 2022 at 22:15 UT.\u00a0 This is the image:-<\/p>\n

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High resolution satellite image of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines. Image copyright Planet<\/a>, used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The main source of the landslide is in the cloud to the northeast of the image.\u00a0 As I noted previously, there is another substantial source that is visible. The flow has passed through a comparatively narrow gap and then spread.\u00a0 Note that there is very little evidence of landslide debris, implying a very mobile, fluid flow that has been removed by the river, which of course would have been in flood at the time of the failure.<\/p>\n

For comparison, this is a Google Earth image of the same site ( I have included the location for reference), dated 20 April 2019:-<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of the site of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The latest NDRRMC report lists 50 known fatalities at Kantagnos, with 93 people listed as missing<\/a>.\u00a0 The total death toll from Tropical Storm Megi is now 175 people, with a further 110 people missing.\u00a0 The vast majority of the deaths occurred in landslides.\u00a0 Remarkably, an 11 year old boy survived the Kantagnos village in a refrigerator, but tragically his parents and a sibling were killed.<\/p>\n

The impact of the landslide can be made clear by examining the inhabited area near to the river.\u00a0 This is the site in 2019:-<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of the toe of the site of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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And this is the site from the Planet image:-<\/p>\n

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High resolution satellite image of the Kantagnos village landslide in the Philippines. Image copyright Planet<\/a>, used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hope fully, below you will see a slide comparison of the two images:-<\/p>\n

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It is clear that multiple houses have been destroyed in the landslide, as well as a substantial area of agricultural land.<\/p>\n

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Acknowledgement<\/h4>\n

Planet Team (2022). Planet Application Program Interface: In Space for Life on Earth. San Francisco, CA. https:\/\/www.planet.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks in particular to Rob Simmon of Planet for providing the image.\u00a0 Simply amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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