{"id":42255,"date":"2022-11-28T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=42255"},"modified":"2022-11-28T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:25:48","slug":"casamicciola-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2022\/11\/28\/casamicciola-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy<\/h4>\n

The deadly 27 November 2022 landslide at the town of Casamicciola Terme on the island of Ischia in Italy<\/a> is now known to have killed seven people, whilst a further five remain missing.\u00a0 Those confirmed to have died include a three week old baby and two other children. Four people were injured.\u00a0 Rescue operations have continued through the night<\/a>, but the prospects of anyone being recovered alive are low.<\/p>\n

Ischia is a volcanic island with steep slopes.\u00a0 Landslides have occurred on manyy previous occasions, and the risk has been greatly exacerbated by unplanned urban development in locations that are simply inappropriate.\u00a0 Much of this development has occurred over the last three decades.<\/p>\n

The most revealing imagery that I have seen of this landslide is a drone video that has been published on the 3B Meteo website<\/a>.\u00a0 It shows the full length of the landslide at Casamicciola.\u00a0 This is the upper portion:-<\/p>\n

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A still from a drone video showing the 27 November 2022 landslide at Casamicciola in Italy. Drone footage by 3B Meteo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The path of the landslide has then run straight through the town.\u00a0 The still below shows the section of the upper part of the urbanbised area with the landslide track:-<\/p>\n

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A still from a drone video showing the track of the 27 November 2022 landslide at Casamicciola in Italy. Drone footage by 3B Meteo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The path of the landslide reached the sea in the lower part of the town, with vehicles and the remains of buildings being dumped into the water.<\/p>\n

In Hong Kong this would be termed a natural terrain landslide.\u00a0 The drone footage appears to indicate that it initiated on the very steep upper reaches of the slope as a comparatively small failure in weathered rock.\u00a0 The channelised flow has then entrained large volumes of debris to generate a highly destructive flow.<\/p>\n

In Italy, these types of events tend to generate a great deal of concern about the high levels of vulnerability to landslides.\u00a0 I expect that there will be many statements urging the need to deal with the risk.\u00a0 On previous occasions little action has actually been taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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