{"id":4881,"date":"2012-06-25T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2012-06-25T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:04:24","slug":"first-news-of-another-landslide-accident-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/25\/first-news-of-another-landslide-accident-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"First news of another landslide accident in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL6E8HP7HW20120625\">Reuters Africa are reporting<\/a> that there was a landslide on the flanks of Mt Elgon in Uganda this morning.\u00a0 The reports suggest that heavy rainfall triggered a landslide in\u00a0Bumwalukani parish on the slopes of the extinct volcano.\u00a0 Three villages were buried.\u00a0 The reported death toll is currently 10 people, with early reports suggesting that up to 100 may have been buried.\u00a0 However, note that the reports are currently very sketchy about this incident, so these numbers may change substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Elgon has been the location of a number of landslides in recent years.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=43130\">The worst event occurred in 2010<\/a>, when heavy rainfall triggered a landslide that killed over 300 people.\u00a0 This area has been subject to high levels of deforestation in recent years, with large areas being turned over to coffee production.\u00a0 Unfortunately, landslides are proving to be a major hazard as a result.<\/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>An initial report of a large and deadly landslide on the flanks of Mount Elgon in Uganda<!-- 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":[85,367,959,631,557],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-deforestation","tag-landslide-report","tag-mount-elgon","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","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=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}