{"id":43544,"date":"2023-04-28T05:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T05:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=43544"},"modified":"2023-04-28T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T05:50:00","slug":"sand-in-taufers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2023\/04\/28\/sand-in-taufers-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand in Taufers: an interesting rockslide in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sand in Taufers: an interesting rockslide in Italy<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On 24 April 2023 a large boulder was involved in an unusual rockslide in Sand in Taufers<\/a>, a town located in the Taufers Valley in South Tyrol, northern Italy.\u00a0 The rockslide was captured on a surveillance video that was posted to Youtube<\/a>.\u00a0 It is rather cool:-<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFVSuedtirol\/status\/1650487390593511431<\/p>\n

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This is quite an unusual rockslide in that it is a single boulder that is sliding, with no rotation, across the grass.\u00a0 This still from the video captures the motion:-<\/p>\n

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The 24 April 2023 rockslide at Sand in Taufers, Italy. Still from a video Tweeted by LFV Sudtirol.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The boulder fortunately missed the large building – it was very close – but inconveniently came to a stop in the road.\u00a0 The Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Sand in Taufers Facebook site<\/a> has some images of the boulder, its track and the efforts to reopen the road, including this image of the boulder itself:-<\/p>\n

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The boulder involved in the 24 April 2023 rockslide at Sand in Taufers, Italy. Image posted to Facebook by Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Sand in Taufers.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The location of this event was [46.933, 11.938].\u00a0 The slope is the foot of a ski area that only recently closed at the end of the season.\u00a0 This is the Google Earth perspective on the site:-<\/p>\n

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Google Earth view of the site of the 24 April 2023 rockslide at Sand in Taufers, Italy<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

The unusual movement of this boulder, which looks to be akin to surfing, is probably a combination of the surface properties – grass growing on wet soil that allowed the boulder to slide – and the tabular shape of the boulder itself, which inhibited rotation.\u00a0 I am not sure as to the origin of the boulder, but news articles indicate that another potentially unstable block has been identified and will be made safe.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Acknowledgement<\/h4>\n

Thanks to Andr\u00e9 Stumpf for drawing this most interesting video to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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