{"id":443,"date":"2009-04-14T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-round-up-of-some-recent-landslide-events\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:37:30","slug":"a-round-up-of-some-recent-landslide-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-round-up-of-some-recent-landslide-events\/","title":{"rendered":"A round-up of some recent landslide events"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought that it was time to provide a round-up of some landslide events from around the world:<\/p>\n

1. A narrow escape in Australia<\/span>
Thanks to Remke van Dam for bringing this one to my attention. This Australian family had a pretty lucky escape last week when a pair of large rocks struck their car (image from here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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2. A road-blocking rockfall in Alaska<\/span>
Thanks to John Fritz for this one. In Alaska, a pretty large rockfall has blocked the Whittier tunnel (see news report here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The landslide occurred on Saturday; the road is expected to be blocked until Wednesday.<\/p>\n

3. A fatal landslide in Idaho<\/span>
In contrast to the first item above, a very unlucky couple were killed by a landslide in Idaho last week. According to this report<\/a>, the couple’s 4×4 (SUV) was hit by a tree that had toppled onto the road as a result of a small landslide near to Orofino. As the image below (from here<\/a>) shows, the tree hit the cab, killing the occupants:<\/p>\n

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I thought that it was time to provide a round-up of some landslide events from around the world: 1. A narrow escape in AustraliaThanks to Remke van Dam for bringing this one to my attention. This Australian family had a pretty lucky escape last week when a pair of large rocks struck their car (image from here): 2. A road-blocking rockfall in AlaskaThanks to John Fritz for this one. In …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[340,176,339,56,338,341,48],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska","tag-australia","tag-idaho","tag-rockfall","tag-round-up","tag-tree","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}