{"id":4890,"date":"2012-06-26T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2012-06-26T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:19:44","slug":"first-images-of-the-landslide-in-uganda-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/26\/first-images-of-the-landslide-in-uganda-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"First images of the landslide in Uganda yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/news\/632346-dozens-still-missing-army-joins-bududa-rescue-effort.html\">New Vision Uganda<\/a> has published online a first set of the images of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/25\/first-news-of-another-landslide-accident-in-uganda\/\">landslide on the flanks of Mount Elgon yesterday<\/a>, which is believed to have killed at least 18, with <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201206260157.html\">72 people reported missing<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/News\/National\/Landslides+kill+18+in+Bududa++450+missing\/-\/688334\/1435674\/-\/4rxa1g\/-\/index.html\">some reports suggest a much higher toll<\/a>, but this is would be surprisingly high).\u00a0 The most informative image is this one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4891\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/06\/26\/first-images-of-the-landslide-in-uganda-yesterday\/12_06-uganda-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4891\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4891\" title=\"12_06 Uganda 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/06\/12_06-Uganda-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/06\/12_06-Uganda-1.gif 600w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/06\/12_06-Uganda-1-300x201.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/news\/632346-dozens-still-missing-army-joins-bududa-rescue-effort.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The landslide appears to be a quite mobile flow in deeply weathered residual soil.\u00a0 The length of the runout is unclear.\u00a0 Unfortunately, given the likely nature of the reported 20 houses that were buried, the prognosis for those not recovered to date is not good.<\/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>A good quality image has appeared online that appears to show the landslide that killed about 90 people in Uganda yesterday<!-- 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":4891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,469,959,557],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","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=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}