{"id":4249,"date":"2012-02-09T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2012-02-09T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:27:25","slug":"comparing-initial-landslide-reports-tumbi-quarry-papua-new-guinea-and-kaikora-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/02\/09\/comparing-initial-landslide-reports-tumbi-quarry-papua-new-guinea-and-kaikora-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing initial landslide reports: Tumbi Quarry, Papua New Guinea and Kaikora, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4250\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4250\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/02\/09\/comparing-initial-landslide-reports-tumbi-quarry-papua-new-guinea-and-kaikora-new-zealand\/12_02-tumbi-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4250\" title=\"12_02 Tumbi 5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/02\/12_02-Tumbi-5-e1328775978165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/lngwatchpng.blogspot.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Several people have asked what I mean by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/02\/07\/an-official-report-on-the-tumbi-quarry-landslide\/\">a proper landslide investigation with respect to the report on the Tumbi Quarry landslide<\/a>.\u00a0 To illustrate, one might compare these two reports:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificdisaster.net\/pdnadmin\/data\/original\/PNG_2012_LS_assessmnt_rprt.pdf\">The Tumbi Quarry landslide rep<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificdisaster.net\/pdnadmin\/data\/original\/PNG_2012_LS_assessmnt_rprt.pdf\">ort<\/a>, prepared by the National Disaster Center.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geonet.org.nz\/content\/download\/8805\/57046\/file\/SR_2010-059.pdf\">Report on the landslide that blocked SH 1 and the railway line near Rosy Morn Stream south of Kaikoura on 10 September 2010<\/a>, prepared by GNS Science as part of the Geonet programme.<\/p>\n<p>The GNS report is not long, and nor is it highly detailed.\u00a0 However, it is throrough, it investiogates and describes the landslide properly, and it allows evidence-based conclusions to be drawn about he landslide and its triggers and causes.<\/p>\n<p>This should be the minimum level of report for a major landslide event.\u00a0 Of course, in New Zealand (or indeed the UK) a landslide that killed 25 or more people would probably be investigated in very much more detail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Comparing the Tumbi Quarry landslide report with one from New Zealand<!-- 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":4250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","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=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}