{"id":5178,"date":"2012-09-14T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2012-09-14T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:34:13","slug":"landslides-kill-at-least-19-and-probably-many-more-in-northern-india-with-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/09\/14\/landslides-kill-at-least-19-and-probably-many-more-in-northern-india-with-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides kill at least 19 (and probably many more) in Northern India (with images)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The S. asian summer monsoon typically starts to withdraw in early September.\u00a0 This year, once again, this withdrawal is late (the seventh year in a row that this has happened<\/a>).\u00a0 The result has been a late bite in the tail with a burst of heavy rainfall affecting the northern areas, especially the Himalayan province of Uttarakhand.\u00a0 Across in Darjeeling landslides have also been occurring – the Save the Hills blog has a description of their impacts<\/a>, which includes some good photographs.\u00a0 Fortunately there have been no reported fatalities.\u00a0 That is not the case back in Uttarakhand, where heavy landslides overnight yesterday are reported to have killed at least 19 people<\/a>.\u00a0 The worst affected area seems to be the Rudraprayag area, where 14 people are reported to have been killed and it is estimated that 25 to 30 people remain buried.\u00a0 It is also reported that five people were killed in Bageshwar.<\/p>\n

Within India some news reports suggest higher losses, but this is unconfirmed.\u00a0 Zee News for example<\/a> is reporting that 33 bodies have been recovered, and a further 35 people are missing.\u00a0 It is notable that just as with the other (lower totalled) reports these figures are attributed to Piyush Rautela, who is the\u00a0 Executive Director of the Disaster Management and Mitigation Department.\u00a0 It may well be that this is a later and more reliable figure.<\/p>\n

Climate Himalaya<\/a> have sent a team to the site and have posted a series of very impressive photographs of the disaster<\/a>.\u00a0 They are reporting 68 deaths, with many more people still buried.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The image above appears to show a very mobile flow type event.\u00a0 On intial inspection this might have initiated as a quite small slide in colluvium high on the slope, with lots of entrainment of debris.\u00a0 Note the water flowing into the scar on the left side, and the apparently quite deep, wedge-shaped scar on the lower portion.\u00a0 Finally, there are several buried houses at the foot of the slope and on the left side, supporting the idea that there may have been many fatalities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late monsoon Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand in northern India are likely to have killed at least 68 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,5,959,979],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-india","tag-landslide-report","tag-monsoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","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=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}