{"id":4114,"date":"2012-01-14T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2012-01-14T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T20:16:51","slug":"a-photo-album-of-landslide-damage-at-golden-bay-nelson-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/01\/14\/a-photo-album-of-landslide-damage-at-golden-bay-nelson-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo album of landslide damage at Golden Bay, Nelson, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have spent the last week collecting samples from the rock slopes affected by the Christchurch earthquake sequence, and am now travelling back up to Wellington, were I will spend the coming week. En route I have stopped off for the weekend in Nelson so as to be able to take a look at the landslides at Golden Bay.\u00a0 These landslides were triggered in an exceptional rainstorm in mid December – I covered it briefly at the time<\/a> – and have been quite devastating for the local people.<\/p>\n

In Golden Bay the most seriously affected area that I saw was the margin of the Abel-Tasman National Park, as shown in the Google Earth image below, especially between Pohara and Tata Beach, although there is almost certainly further problems to the east that I could not access.\u00a0 The road shown on the map across the area was closed at Tata Beach.<\/p>\n

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A good overview of the main impacts of this storm is shown below – this is the small community of Ligar Bay, which has been an area of beachside houses, with new subdivisions on the slopes behind.\u00a0 If you look carefully you will see:<\/p>\n