{"id":408,"date":"2009-06-09T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/06\/09\/chongqing-landslide-update-9th-june\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:19","slug":"chongqing-landslide-update-9th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/06\/09\/chongqing-landslide-update-9th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Chongqing landslide update &#8211; 9th June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_06-China-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 329px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_06-China-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Image source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/19\/20090609\/img\/pwl-china-landslide-death-9-6f14af6c0f4b.html\">http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/19\/20090609\/img\/pwl-china-landslide-death-9-6f14af6c0f4b.html<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The latest news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/background-to-chongqing-landslide.html\">Chongqing landslide site<\/a> is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Attempts to build a tunnel to the trapped miners continue.  The heavy lift helicopter is now in operation.  Electric cables and a generator have been installed to provide power to the ongoing operations;<\/li>\n<li>Heavy rain has now reduced to drizzle, but the water depth in the barrier lake increased by a metre in 24 hours;<\/li>\n<li>Operations to create a channel to drain the lake continue.  The image above appears to show the barrier lake in the background;<\/li>\n<li>The rescue teams are using sandbags to try to prevent water from the barrier lake entering the mine &#8211; this would of course be disastrous for the trapped miners.<\/li>\n<li>Satellite imagery was expected to be available from today (I would like to see this!).  Meanwhile, monitoring points have been established to provide warning of any further landslides.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Time must be running out for the miners, but it sounds as if the Chinese are undertaking a huge effort to rescue them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some additional pieces of background information have been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2009-06\/09\/content_8262001.htm\">China Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The iron ore mine, which was called Sanlian, produced only 100 tonnes per day.  This is very low.<\/li>\n<li>A similar accident occurred 0n 30th April 1994, creating a landslide deposit that blocked the river;<\/li>\n<li>Two days before the accident rockfalls were observed from the slope;<\/li>\n<li>The local authorities warned the villagers about the potential for a landslide in 2003.  They were offered 5,000 yuan (c.\u00a3450 or 520 Euros) to move.  Most villagers refused to leave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image source: http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/19\/20090609\/img\/pwl-china-landslide-death-9-6f14af6c0f4b.html The latest news from the Chongqing landslide site is as follows: Attempts to build a tunnel to the trapped miners continue. The heavy lift helicopter is now in operation. Electric cables and a generator have been installed to provide power to the ongoing operations; Heavy rain has now reduced to drizzle, but the water depth in the barrier lake increased by a metre in 24 hours; Operations &hellip;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,959,205,309,132],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-landslide-report","tag-mining","tag-rescue","tag-sichuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}