{"id":5362,"date":"2012-10-23T06:57:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2012-10-23T06:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:57:44","slug":"an-interesting-rockslide-from-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/10\/23\/an-interesting-rockslide-from-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting rockslide from New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, a huge thanks to Mike Huggins for all his help with this post.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, a large rockslide closed Route 4 in Washington County in New York State.\u00a0 The landslide consisted primarily of large blocks of late Precambrian metamorphic rock.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/rock-slide-closes-route-in-fort-ann\/article_132e96ee-16cb-11e2-ae07-001a4bcf887a.html\">PostStar.com has a good image gallery of the landslide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5363\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/10\/23\/an-interesting-rockslide-from-new-york-state\/12_10-nystate-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5363\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363\" title=\"12_10 NYState 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/10\/12_10-NYState-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/10\/12_10-NYState-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/10\/12_10-NYState-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/rock-slide-closes-route-in-fort-ann\/article_132e96ee-16cb-11e2-ae07-001a4bcf887a.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although the landslide occurred at just after 9 am, no-one was buried or hit by the landslide.\u00a0 Inevitably, clear up took a few days &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/police-confirm-no-vehicle-under-route-roc k-slide\/article_13b5908e-1795-11e2-97e3-0019bb2963f4.html)\">this article<\/a> details the challenges that they faced.\u00a0 There is also a video of the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news10.com\/story\/19821161\/rock-slide-closes-route-4-in-fort-a nn\">on this site<\/a> (once you get past the Christmas advert), although it is unclear to me as to why this was &#8220;an accident waiting to happen as indicated by the report&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to analyse the stability of this slope.\u00a0 The failure has clearly been controlled by existing joints in the rock mass.<\/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 brief report on a rockslide in New York state last week, which closed Route 4 in Washington County, USA<!-- 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":5363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,659,136,48],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-new-york-state","tag-rockslide","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}