{"id":42136,"date":"2022-11-14T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=42136"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:34:35","slug":"el-molino-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/11\/14\/el-molino-1\/","title":{"rendered":"El Molino: a very large landslide in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>El Molino: a very large landslide in Colombia<\/h4>\n<p>On 10 November 2022 a large landslide occurred at El Molino in Villa Caro, Norte de Santander in Colombia.\u00a0 Landslides are increasingly common in Colombia, but this is an unusually large event.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/caracol.com.co\/2022\/11\/11\/alertan-por-avalancha-en-el-municipio-de-villa-caro-en-norte-de-santander\/\">Caracol has an article in Spanish about the landslide,<\/a> whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/nacion\/cucuta\/articulo\/cinco-desaparecidos-tras-derrumbe-en-villa-caro-norte-de-santander-pertenecerian-a-una-misma-familia\/202208\/\">Semana has this before and after image of the site<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42139\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42139\" class=\" wp-image-42139\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/11\/22_11-Colombia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before and after image of the landslide at El Molino in Colombia. \" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/11\/22_11-Colombia-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/11\/22_11-Colombia-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/11\/22_11-Colombia-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2022\/11\/22_11-Colombia-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Before and after image of the landslide at El Molino in Colombia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/nacion\/cucuta\/articulo\/cinco-desaparecidos-tras-derrumbe-en-villa-caro-norte-de-santander-pertenecerian-a-una-misma-familia\/202208\/\">Image from Semana<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It is very difficult to appreciate the scale of this landslide from photographs, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noticucuta\/status\/1591412989474865152\">Noti Cucuta has tweeted this helicopter footage of the aftermath of the event<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Grave desastre en Villa Caro deja cinco personas desaparecidas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/muIWVES8OK\">pic.twitter.com\/muIWVES8OK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Noti C\u00facuta (@noticucuta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noticucuta\/status\/1591412989474865152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 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><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laopinioncucuta\/status\/1591203206033309696\">There is also another video that has been tweeted by Diario La Opini\u00f3n<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Atenci%C3%B3n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Atenci\u00f3n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Video?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Video<\/a> | En el sobrevuelo que hizo la Gobernaci\u00f3n de Norte de Santander, se ve el estrago de la temporada invernal que afecta a los habitantes de Villa Caro.<br \/>M\u00e1s info en: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FGSSTs7IlP\">https:\/\/t.co\/FGSSTs7IlP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KzSGRAJLeI\">pic.twitter.com\/KzSGRAJLeI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diario La Opini\u00f3n (@laopinion_col) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laopinion_col\/status\/1591203206033309696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 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>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ejercito_Div2\/status\/1591254228437471233\">Segunda Divisi\u00f3n del Ej\u00e9rcito Nacional has a further helicopter video<\/a>, which shows the long runout of the landslide:-<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">En horas de la tarde acompa\u00f1amos a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoberNorte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GoberNorte<\/a> y al equipo de gesti\u00f3n del riesgo, en un sobrevuelo sobre la zona afectada por la ola invernal en Villa Caro, para evidenciar la magnitud de lo ocurrido y apoyar a las autoridades en las labores humanitarias de emergencia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/um6KqRTUl5\">pic.twitter.com\/um6KqRTUl5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Segunda Divisi\u00f3n del Ej\u00e9rcito Nacional (@Ejercito_Div2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ejercito_Div2\/status\/1591254228437471233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 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 landslide was triggered by prolonged heavy rainfall.\u00a0 It has resulted in 28 families being rendered homeless, and five people from a single family are reported to be missing, presumed to have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>This landslide is quite reminiscent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2017\/12\/19\/villa-santa-lucia-landslide-2\/\">16 December 2017 Villa Santa Lucia landslide in Chile<\/a>.\u00a0 I will need to use satellite imagery to understand it properly.\u00a0 The landslide was captured on a Planet Labs image on 11 November 2022, so this will be possible in the coming days.\u00a0 The crown of the landslide is at 7.949, -73.025.\u00a0 It has a total runout distance (crown to toe) of about 5 km.<\/p>\n<p>I will provide more details in the coming days.<\/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>On 10 November 2022 a 5 km long landslide occurred at El Molino in Villa Caro, Santander in Colombia, killing five people.<!-- 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":42139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[359,469,959,122],"class_list":["post-42136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-colombia","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136","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=42136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}