{"id":43203,"date":"2023-03-20T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=43203"},"modified":"2023-03-20T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:58:52","slug":"mtauchira-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2023\/03\/20\/mtauchira-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mtauchira: a devastating landslide in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Mtauchira: a devastating landslide in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy<\/h4>\n<p>During February and March 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?s=cyclone&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0&amp;mswhere=blog\">Cyclone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclone_Freddy\">Freddy tracked across the Indian Ocean<\/a>, bringing widespread but under-reported destruction to Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.\u00a0 It is estimated that over 800 people have been killed or are missing as a result of the storm, and more than a million people have been directly impacted.\u00a0 As usual, most of the destruction was caused by water, of which landslides were a significant part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogrt86sYjpA\">Reuters has a video story about the village of Mtauchira in Malawi<\/a>, which was devastated by a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall associated with Cyclone Freddy.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cyclone-freddy-death-toll-rises-161851293.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGe7cwE3IqlGDtLh_q470Jq0p8vRYpCKIKeYx1Jb4n0G3zMbafVzzN2AfcUIXMMlSiXqaOk1hHwo_LhGtBMdSjJ5MG8KO9h0EQ8cFjtIGA3G48dhWXN019KxNp8PLPuXRB2V4sSEsXeJhIHX0-dg4gtgYd1zYx6lMHUBim3AmTK3\">Yahoo has some text about the landslide too<\/a>, indicating that it killed 32 people and left a further 18 missing.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogrt86sYjpA\">The video should be visible here<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cyclone Freddy death toll rises above 400\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogrt86sYjpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This image, taken from the video, is a stunning illustration of the impact of the failure:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43205\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43205\" class=\" wp-image-43205\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-1.jpg\" alt=\"The landslide at Mtauchira in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-1.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The landslide at Mtauchira in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogrt86sYjpA\">Still from a Reuters video posted to Youtube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this is a view from the crown of the landslide:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43207\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43207\" class=\" wp-image-43207\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-2.jpg\" alt=\"A view from the crown of the landslide at Mtauchira in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-2.jpg 1271w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-2-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-2-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2023\/03\/23_03-Malawi-2-768x399.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A view from the crown of the landslide at Mtauchira in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogrt86sYjpA\">Still from a Reuters video posted to Youtube.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>This clearly started as a shallow landslide on a steep, deforested slope.\u00a0 The main body of the landslide would be termed in Hong Kong as an open hillslope landslide, taking the form of a debris flow.\u00a0 It is clear that the initial failure has entrained a large volume of colluvium from the slope to create the main landslide.\u00a0 The devastating impact on the houses at the foot of the slope is clear.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am unsure as to the location of Mtauchira &#8211; it does not seem to appear in the geonames databases that I usually use.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Secretary General and CEO, of the <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jagan_chapagain\/status\/1635637199247900678\">Jagan Chapagain, tweeted this video of a mudflow in Malawi<\/a>, also triggered by Cyclone Freddy.\u00a0 The location of this event is not specified, but it illustrates the destructive power of these landslides:-<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tropical Cyclone <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Freddy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Freddy<\/a> made landfall in Malawi causing widespread devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the cyclone disrupted lives and livelihoods of too many people.<\/p>\n<p>The IFRC is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalawiRedCross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MalawiRedCross<\/a> to provide support to those affected. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cmuySJpUmp\">pic.twitter.com\/cmuySJpUmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jagan Chapagain (@jagan_chapagain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jagan_chapagain\/status\/1635637199247900678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>Mtauchira: a devastating landslide in Malawi, triggered by Cyclone Freddy, which has killed an estimated 50 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,469,959,30737,53],"class_list":["post-43203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-malawi","tag-tropical-cyclone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203","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=43203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}