The best images are this one from CBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2012\/07\/12\/bc-landslide-johnsons-landing.html<\/p><\/div>\n And in particular this one from TMTV News<\/a>:<\/p>\n http:\/\/tmtv.net\/BCTV_johnsons_landing_photo_video_Slide_kootenays_news_july_12_2012.htm<\/p><\/div>\n The landslide appears to have been a highly mobile flow type of event, but with quite an interesting and unusual morphology in the toe region.\u00a0 On a provisional inspection (and very tentatively) it appears that after an initial failure the landslide debris followed an existing channel and then spilled over the bank and down the slope, with some of the debris remaining in the channel (see the lower left of the upper image).\u00a0 I think that this is the area on the Google Earth imagery, but again this is pure speculation at this stage:<\/p>\n An initial report and images on a landslide in Johnsons Landing, BC yesterday that is thought to have killed four people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,23,469,54,959,588],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-flow","tag-landslide-report","tag-seismic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","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=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Canada-1.jpg\" "\\"12_07")
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<\/a>A slightly intriguing aspect of this event is that the weather at the time of the event is reported to have been sunny and warm (although there has been a lot of rain recently).\u00a0 Even more intriguing is the fact that just a few minutes before the landslide, at 10:22 am local time, the USGS recorded a small earthquake<\/a> in BC that they are describing as a quarry blast.\u00a0 Initially I wondered whether this might be the seismic signature of this event.\u00a0 However, the location is reported to be about 275 km from Johnsons Landing, although I am not sufficiently au fait with seismic data to be able to state the likely location error.\u00a0 Just to be clear though, it is highly unlikely that the recorded seismic event was the trigger for the landslide, and there is a high chance that it iscompletely unrelated.\u00a0 I would be interested to hear the views of those with more experience of seismic data than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"