{"id":41892,"date":"2022-10-18T07:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=41892"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:08:38","slug":"las-tejerias-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/10\/18\/las-tejerias-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Tejer\u00edas: landslides in the upstream catchment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Las Tejer\u00edas: landslides in the upstream catchment<\/h4>\n<p>Cloud is continuing to render it difficult to get a full understanding of the causes of the 8-9 October 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/10\/12\/las-tejerias-2\/\">Las Tejer\u00edas landslide disaster in Venezuela<\/a>, obstructing the view from satellites.\u00a0 However, loyal reader <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/10\/12\/las-tejerias-2\/#comment-252452\">Fab has found a tweet<\/a> with some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\/status\/1580226508370558979\">helicopter video taken in the catchment<\/a>.\u00a0 The Tweet should be visible below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Vista a\u00e9rea de las <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tejerias?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tejerias<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kMggnT19tH\">pic.twitter.com\/kMggnT19tH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gregoria D\u00edaz (@churuguara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\/status\/1580226508370558979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The video was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\">Gregoria D\u00edaz<\/a>, a journalist in Venezuela.\u00a0 The footage is very revealing.\u00a0 Right at the start it incudes images of two sets of disrupted rockslides in steep catchments:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41895\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41895\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41895\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-5.jpg\" alt=\"Landslides in the catchment of the Rio Las Tejer\u00edas.\" width=\"503\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-5.jpg 503w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-5-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Landslides in the catchment of the Rio Las Tejer\u00edas. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\/status\/1580226508370558979\">video<\/a> tweeted by Gregoria D\u00edaz (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\">@churuguara<\/a>).<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Other parts of the video show shallow failures with long debris trails on steep forested slopes:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41897\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41897\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-6.jpg\" alt=\"Shallow landslides with long debris trails in the catchment of the Rio Las Tejer\u00edas. \" width=\"496\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-6.jpg 496w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-Tejerias-6-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shallow landslides with long debris trails in the catchment of the Rio Las Tejer\u00edas. Still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\/status\/1580226508370558979\">video<\/a> tweeted by Gregoria D\u00edaz (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churuguara\">@churuguara<\/a>).<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set of images the landslides appear to be comparatively small initial failures, shallow in nature, which have then entrained soil and debris downslope.\u00a0 In most cases there appears to be good connectivity with the main channel.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, an initial diagnosis is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/10\/12\/las-tejerias-2\/\">Las Tejer\u00edas landslide disaster<\/a> was caused by extreme rainfall in the catchment that triggered multiple landslides, which evolved into channelised debris flows that travelled down the main channel to impact the town.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of losses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/venezuelan-authorities-raise-death-toll-to-54-in-tejer%C3%ADas-floods\/ar-AA134ZbC\">the confirmed number of fatalities is now 54, with a further eight people remaining missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rainfall continues to cause losses in other parts of Venezuela.\u00a0 In El Costano, a suburb of Maracay, the capital of Aragua state, a mudslide killed three people on 17 October 2022.\u00a0 Once again there is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EarthquakeChil1\/status\/1582094549249245184\">dramatic footage on Twitter<\/a> showing the landslides in full flow:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Aviso \u26a0\ufe0f En Venezuela se esta viviendo una emergencia en sector &quot;El casta\u00f1o&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maracay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Maracay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dwW3oxL66E\">pic.twitter.com\/dwW3oxL66E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; X (@EarthquakeChil1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EarthquakeChil1\/status\/1582094549249245184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#URGENTE<\/a> Sector Los Casta\u00f1os estado Aragua, inundaciones mantienen en angustia a sus habitantes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DyXUjegJ0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/DyXUjegJ0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Esteninf Olivarez (@esteninf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esteninf\/status\/1582092959272824837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro has been clear as to the causes of these landslides, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20221018-new-landslide-in-venezuela-kills-three-people\">France 24 \/ AFP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Maduro later traveled to El Castano, where he said &#8220;all this is climate change.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This year the rainfall has been very difficult for the whole country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maduro said that in 2022, he has seen the worst natural disasters in his nine and a half years in office.<\/em><\/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 Las Tejer\u00edas landslide disaster: helicopter footage shows multiple landslides in the catchment upstream of the town. <!-- 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":41895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[27975,469,959,122,200],"class_list":["post-41892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-images","tag-channelised-debris-flow","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-south-america","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41892","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=41892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}