{"id":41912,"date":"2022-10-21T06:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=41912"},"modified":"2022-10-21T06:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T06:44:37","slug":"novyi-svet-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/10\/21\/novyi-svet-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novyi Svet: A large landslide in a landfill site in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Novyi Svet: A large landslide in a landfill site in Russia<\/h4>\n<p>On Thursday 20 October 2022 a large and notable landslide occurred at a landfill site in the village of Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442) in Gatchinsky, Russia (the village is at 59.559, 30.201).\u00a0 Unsurprisingly in these troubled times this has not been reported in the western media, but it is an impressive failure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/78.ru\/news\/2022-10-20\/poyavilos_video_shoda_svalochnih_mass_na_poligone_tbo_novii_svet\">The Russian website 78.ru has this image of the aftermath of the landslide<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41915\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41915\" class=\"wp-image-41915 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-1.jpg\" alt=\"The landslide at a landfill site Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442) in Russia.\" width=\"540\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-1-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The landslide at a landfill site Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442) in Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/78.ru\/news\/2022-10-20\/poyavilos_video_shoda_svalochnih_mass_na_poligone_tbo_novii_svet\">Image from 78.ru<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some videos on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shika_ishi\/status\/1583070720535408640\">of which this is a good example<\/a> (please excuse the music):-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30ec\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u30e9\u30fc\u30c9\u5dde\u30ac\u30c3\u30c1\u30ca\u3067\u3054\u307f\u5c71\u304c\u5d29\u843d\u3057\u3066\u60aa\u81ed\u304c\u3059\u3054\u3044\u3068\u306e\u4e8b\u3002<br \/>\u3053\u3053\u3092\u7ba1\u7406\u3057\u3066\u3044\u308b\u4f1a\u793e\u306f\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0421\u0432\u0435\u0442-\u042d\u041a\u041e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bvZSgJAbP\">pic.twitter.com\/4bvZSgJAbP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u3057\u304b (@shika_ishi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shika_ishi\/status\/1583070720535408640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 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>This is a still taken from that video:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41917\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41917\" class=\" wp-image-41917\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2.jpg\" alt=\"The landslide at a landfill site Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442) in Russia.\" width=\"798\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2.jpg 1706w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/10\/22_10-NS-2-1536x961.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The landslide at a landfill site Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442) in Russia. Image from a still from a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shika_ishi\/status\/1583070720535408640\">video that was tweeted by @shika_ishi<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a rotational landside in the wall of the landfill site.\u00a0 The lower part of the landslide has transitioned into an earthflow.\u00a0 Many of the images show smoke, suggesting that there is some combustion of the waste occurring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dp.ru\/a\/2022\/10\/20\/Poligon_Novij_Svet_prod2\">The Russian website dp.ru has a more detailed description of the landfill<\/a> (in Russian).\u00a0 The site accepts domestic waste from Gatchinsky district of the Leningrad region and ten districts of St Petersburg.\u00a0 Despite the failure it continues to operate as usual.\u00a0 The height of the walls of the facility is about 60 m, and the site has been in operation since 2001.\u00a0 No-one was killed or injured in the landslide.<\/p>\n<p>I can find no information as to a likely trigger or cause of this unusual landslide at Novyi Svet (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=garbage&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\"> I have covered a number of tragic landfill \/ garbage landslides over the years<\/a>, including s<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/04\/17\/meethotamulla-garbage-dump\/\">everal in poorer countries that have caused multiple fatalities<\/a>. 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