{"id":424,"date":"2009-05-19T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/05\/19\/landslide-in-campostela-valley-philippines-25-people-killed\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:23","slug":"landslide-in-campostela-valley-philippines-25-people-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/05\/19\/landslide-in-campostela-valley-philippines-25-people-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide in Campostela Valley, Philippines: &gt;25 people killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_05-philippines-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_05-philippines-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:85%\">Image of the September 2008 landslide in Campostela Valley that killed &gt;20 people (image from <a href=\"http:\/\/tagadavao.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/10\/compostela-valley-landslide\/\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A range of news agencies, including <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia-pacific\/2009\/05\/20095197267531980.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hkpfhBWEvgLSA3aE0nDAsfYzGZqw\">AFP<\/a>, are reporting that there was a major landslide in Campostela Valley in the Philippines yesterday.  Regular readers of this blog will be fairly familiar with this location, which appears to have a major fatal landslide every few months.<\/p>\n<p>The event yesterday occurred in barangay Napnapan, Pantukan town in Campostela Valley province (see map below).  The approximate coordinates are 7.15N 125.95E.  I will try to pin down the location in more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Campostela Valley has a large number of fatal landslides largely because the combination of tropical soils, intense rainfall events and unregulated mining is a very toxic mix.  This slide is reported to have killed 26 people and left a further 19 missing (although I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this latter number is an over-estimate &#8211; it often is).  The scenario of the slide is a little confused &#8211; some reports suggest that it buried 20 houses in a shanty town, whilst others say that the victims were resting in a bunkhouse.  The trigger appears to have been heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post an update when more info is available.<\/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>Image of the September 2008 landslide in Campostela Valley that killed &gt;20 people (image from here) A range of news agencies, including Al Jazeera and AFP, are reporting that there was a major landslide in Campostela Valley in the Philippines yesterday. Regular readers of this blog will be fairly familiar with this location, which appears to have a major fatal landslide every few months. The event yesterday occurred in barangay &hellip;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[959,205,252],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-landslide-report","tag-mining","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}