{"id":41695,"date":"2022-09-16T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=41695"},"modified":"2022-09-16T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:38:38","slug":"k2_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/09\/16\/k2_1\/","title":{"rendered":"A dramatic rockslide video from K2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>A dramatic rockslide video from K2<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OSfrFTOmMF8\">A video has been posted to Youtube that shows a rockslide occurring on the flanks of K2<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=pakistan&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\">Pakistan<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stone Avalanche and Land Sliding At Baltoro K2 Shigar Valley Skardu Gilgit Baltistan || Shanu Vlogs\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSfrFTOmMF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There is little detail about this landslide &#8211; the video was reportedly collected close to the Baltoro Glacier.\u00a0 It was posted on 13 September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the event initiated on a near vertical rockface:-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41698\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-1.jpg\" alt=\"The early stages of the rockslide at K2 in Pakistan.\" width=\"422\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-1.jpg 422w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-1-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The early stages of the rockslide in Pakistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OSfrFTOmMF8\">Still from a video posted to Youtube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The terrain below is steep and mantled with debris, so the event transitioned into a rockslide or avalanche:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41700\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41700\" class=\"wp-image-41700 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The runout stage of the rockslide at K2 in Pakistan.\" width=\"418\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-2.jpg 418w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/09\/22_09-K2-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The runout stage of the rockslide on the flanks of K2 in Pakistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OSfrFTOmMF8\">Still from a video posted to Youtube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it is reported that there was no-one in the path of the landslide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>A dramatic rockslide near to the Baltoro Glacier on K2 in Pakistan has been caught on video and posted to Youtube<!-- 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":41700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,959,963,10,306,136,35],"class_list":["post-41695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-pakistan","tag-rock-avalanche","tag-rockslide","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695","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=41695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}