{"id":413,"date":"2009-06-05T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/06\/05\/update-2-media-reports-of-a-very-large-landslide-in-china\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:19","slug":"update-2-media-reports-of-a-very-large-landslide-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/06\/05\/update-2-media-reports-of-a-very-large-landslide-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2: Media reports of a very large landslide in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese State news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaview.cn\/china\/society.htm\">Xinhua<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-06\/05\/content_11494398.htm\">reporting<\/a> that a landslide in Chongqing Municipality has buried about 60 people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-06\/05\/content_11495464.htm\">Chinese state media <\/a>are now reporting 80 fatalities:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;At least 80 people are feared buried in a landslide at an iron ore mining area in southwest China&#8217;s Chongqing Municipality on Friday, according to the local government.  Rescuers had pulled out seven injured people, including four seriously hurt, from the debris as of 8:30 p.m., according to the publicity department of Wulong County, the site of the accident.   The landslide happened at about 3 p.m. in the Jiwei Mountain area, in Tiekuang Township, about 170 kilometers southeast of the downtown area.  Millions of cubic meters of rock filled a valley and buried an iron ore plant and six houses.&#8221;<br \/> <\/em><br \/>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov\/publications_dir\/tri_day_2.html\">TRMM 3 day<\/a> rainfall data does not suggest that the Chongqing area is subject to heavy rainfall at the moment (see image below &#8211; Chongqing is in central west China). I wonder whether this is another <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/flow-slide-disaster-in-china.html\">flowslide?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_06-TRMM-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_06-TRMM-1.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ll post again when more info is available.<\/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>The Chinese State news agency Xinhua is reporting that a landslide in Chongqing Municipality has buried about 60 people. UPDATE 2: The Chinese state media are now reporting 80 fatalities: &#8220;At least 80 people are feared buried in a landslide at an iron ore mining area in southwest China&#8217;s Chongqing Municipality on Friday, according to the local government. Rescuers had pulled out seven injured people, including four seriously hurt, from &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],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}