{"id":4978,"date":"2012-07-17T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2012-07-17T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T07:45:12","slug":"a-landslide-closes-a-famous-hotel-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/17\/a-landslide-closes-a-famous-hotel-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"A landslide closes a famous hotel in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Shimla is a hillside settlement in Himachal Pradesh in northern India.\u00a0 Located at an elevation of 2,205 metres above sea level. it is a historic city which is also a major tourist destination. One of the oldest and most famous hotels in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkesshimla.com\/\">Oberoi Clarkes<\/a> , constructed in 1898 in a colonial style.\u00a0 The hotel has 34 rooms and employs 61 people.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the hotel was closed indefinitely in response to an acute landslide problem.\u00a0 According to news reports, the issue has been the result of the construction of a new high court building and associated roads in the vicinity of the hotel, which caused the failure of a retaining wall in May.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hillpost.in\/2012\/06\/19\/sliding-zone-near-himachal-high-court-threatens-oberoi-clarkes-hotel\/46073\/latest-news\/ravinder\">Hill Post has this image of the site from June this year<\/a> &#8211; the hotel is the building in the background:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/17\/a-landslide-closes-a-famous-hotel-in-india\/w\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4979\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4979\" title=\"W\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>It appears that attempts were made to rebuild the wall, but these has proven unsuccessful.\u00a0 The landslide has now reportedly retrogressed to within two metres of the hotel building, driven in part by monsoon conditions, and thus threatening the hotel, a<a href=\"http:\/\/hillpost.in\/2012\/07\/16\/threatened-by-manmade-landslide-oberoi-hotel-clarkes-shutdown\/46834\/general\/ravinder\">s this more recent image from The Hill Post shows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/17\/a-landslide-closes-a-famous-hotel-in-india\/12_07-shimla-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4980\" title=\"12_07 Shimla 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/12_07-Shimla-2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The famous Hotel Oberoi Clarkes in Shimla has had to be closed as a result of a landslide that now threatens the building<!-- 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":4980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,5,959,161],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-retaining-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","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=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}