{"id":43098,"date":"2023-03-08T07:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=43098"},"modified":"2023-03-08T07:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:38:26","slug":"natuna-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2023\/03\/08\/natuna-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Natuna: a landslide in Indonesia has killed up to 57 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natuna: a landslide in Indonesia has killed up to 58 people<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On Monday 6 March 2023, a large landslide occurred in Natuna regency on the island of Serasan in the Riau islands of Indonesia.\u00a0 Rescue and recovery operations are ongoing at the time of writing, but latest reports indicate that 11 people are confirmed to have been killed and a further 47 are missing<\/a>.\u00a0 The likelihood of finding survivors seems to be very low.<\/p>\n

The landslide, which struck a village named Genting, as triggered by heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n

Badan Geologi has an information page about the event<\/a>, in Indonesian but Google Translate is a useful too.\u00a0 It indicates that three villages have been affected – Genting, Air Raya and Air Sekain.\u00a0 The location is identified on a map, which translates to approximately [2.5096, 109.0413].\u00a0 We will need to use satellite imagery to confirm the location in due course.<\/p>\n

Detik News has a gallery of images of the landslide<\/a>, which includes this picture that apparently shows the source.\u00a0 It appears to be a very steep slope, with the landslide initiating in the regolith:-<\/p>\n

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The source of the 6 February 2023 landslide at Natuna in Indonesia. Image from Detik News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Detik News also has this image of the lower part of the landslide<\/a>:-<\/p>\n

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The lower portion of the 6 February 2023 landslide at Natuna in Indonesia. Image from Detik News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Detik also has a vertical aerial image of the lower part of the landslide, showing the very high levels of destruction that the failure has induced:-<\/p>\n

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Vertical aerial image of the lower portion of the 6 February 2023 landslide at Natuna in Indonesia. Image from Detik News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

It appears to me that this is located at [2.5126, 109.0373], although again this will need to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Based on the images, this appears to be a shallow, disrupted landslide that has transitioned into a mobile flow.<\/p>\n

Antara has an image that provides a slightly wider perspective on the lower part of the landslide<\/a>:-<\/p>\n

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The lower portions of the 6 February 2023 landslide at Natuna in Indonesia. Image from Antara\/Kiky Firdaus\/Lmo\/foc.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 6 March 2023 a large landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall on Serasan Island in Natuna regency of Indonesia, killed up to 57 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":43106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,141,959,157,314],"class_list":["post-43098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-indonesia","tag-landslide-report","tag-rainfall","tag-se-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098","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=43098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}