{"id":4173,"date":"2012-01-24T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:52:43","slug":"breaking-with-pictures-very-large-landslide-in-papua-new-guinea-with-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/01\/24\/breaking-with-pictures-very-large-landslide-in-papua-new-guinea-with-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking (with pictures) – very large landslide in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 6 am local time this morning (Tuesday) a very large landslide occurred in the Hides and Komo area of Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 This area is currently the focus of an ExxonMobil project to build a LNG pipeline, although at the moment is really unclear as to whether the landslide is linked to this work.\u00a0 However, there are news reports that local people may have been buried, with suggestions that there may be as many as 40 people missing<\/a>.\u00a0 It appears that all those involved in the pipeline project are safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly for such a recent event, ABC News has two very high quality images of the landslide<\/a>.\u00a0 The first of these seems to show the source area<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A couple of things to note.\u00a0 First,, obviously, this is really big.\u00a0 Second, looking at the area to the right side of the head scarp it appears that there has been some slope cutting in this area – indeed there may be a couple of tracks and suchlike.\u00a0 I wonder why?\u00a0 These tracks have been cut off by the margin of the slide, suggesting that the pre-failure morphology had been modified. \u00a0 Second, towards the bottom of the image a road has been buried to a substantial depth.<\/p>\n

The other image <\/a>captures the downslope impact of the event:<\/p>\n

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The proximity of the houses suggests that there could well have been loss of inhabited areas.\u00a0 Note the water flowing at the top of the image.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the images neither support nor refute suggestions that the pipeline works might have played a part in this.\u00a0 I am sure that more information will become available in the next few hours.\u00a0 The apparently dry conditions at the time of failure are quite perplexing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very large landslide has occurred in Papua New Guinea, in an area in which a LNG pipeline is under construction. 40 people may be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,959,313],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-papua-new-guinea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}