{"id":4416,"date":"2012-03-07T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:22:54","slug":"breaking-news-an-image-of-the-tumbi-quarry-site-before-the-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/07\/breaking-news-an-image-of-the-tumbi-quarry-site-before-the-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news – an image of the Tumbi Quarry site before the landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astute readers will have seen that Reuters yesterday ran a syndicated story about the Tumbi Quarry landslide<\/a>, and the implications for Exxon-Mobil, which was picked up by many mainstream media outlets (e.g. the Guardian today<\/a>).\u00a0 This blog is quoted in the article.\u00a0 With rather fortunate timing, a few days ago I have received an image of what I am reasonably sure is the site prior to the landslide (compare the features outside the landslide area with the images in this post<\/a>).\u00a0 I will blog on this properly later today, but as a taster here is the image.\u00a0 I think that this image probably predates the most recent quarry expansion, and may therefore be at least a year old.<\/p>\n

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At this point I’ll draw your attention to a couple of interesting points.\u00a0 First, there is a number of what appears to be shallow slips – see locations a and b below:<\/p>\n

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Second, in the unvegetated areas above the quarry scarp are some rather peculiar features running across the hillside (marked c below):<\/p>\n

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Note the excavator (?) at the toe of the quarry slope, which provides scale.\u00a0 These features on the hillslope might be footpaths, but if so they are very well-trodden.<\/p>\n

Comments and interpretations welcome.\u00a0 More later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have obtained an image of the Tumbi Quarry site before the landslide. There are some very interesting features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,959,313,471,605],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-quarry","tag-tumbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}