{"id":4407,"date":"2012-03-05T17:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:40:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:40:03","slug":"the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of a rockfall formed from a 200 tonne boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2109406\/200-tonne-boulder-crashes-street-French-village.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\">The Daily Mail last week featured a remarkable set of images<\/a> of the aftermath of a rockfall consisting of a boulder, estimated as weighing 200 tonnes, in the village of Tenay, near to Lyon.\u00a0 The boulder killed a motorist and destroyed a house:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4408\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4408\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder\/12_03-france-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4408\" title=\"12_03 France 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-1-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2109406\/200-tonne-boulder-crashes-street-French-village.html?ito=feeds-newsxml<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The amazing tool that is Google Earth maens that the site can be identified precisely.\u00a0 This is the Google Streetview image of the house:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4409\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder\/12_03-france-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4409\" title=\"12_03 France 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-2-e1330968835617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the bluffs (Streetview images are not good at looking iupwards at acute angles):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4411\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder\/12_03-france-3-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4411\" title=\"12_03 France 3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-31-e1330968992823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally the Google Earth perspective view, which shows why images taken from above do not indicate rockfall hazard very well:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4412\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/05\/the-impact-of-a-rockfall-formed-from-a-200-tonne-boulder\/12_03-france-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4412\" title=\"12_03 France 4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-France-4-e1330969087401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/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>Startling images of a fatal rockfall from a 200 tonne boulder in France 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