{"id":537,"date":"2008-11-05T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/11\/05\/the-cost-of-the-yunnan-landslides\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:41:47","slug":"the-cost-of-the-yunnan-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/11\/05\/the-cost-of-the-yunnan-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of the Yunnan landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a day when a different type of landslide is dominating the news (a happy end to the possibility of four more years of an <a href=\"http:\/\/clasticdetritus.com\/2008\/09\/30\/sarah-palin-it-doesnt-matter\/\">anti-science<\/a> administration in the White House), reports continue to come in about the disastrous landslides in Yunnan Province in China on Sunday.  Usually it is very difficult to get an estimate of the real costs of landslides, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaview.cn\/china\/society.htm\">Xinhua<\/a> has provided an unusual level of detail:<\/p>\n<p>Number of fatalities: 40<br \/>Number of missing people: 43<br \/>Number injured: 10<br \/>Number of people affected: 1.27 million<br \/>Number of people moved from their homes: 60,800<br \/>Number of houses destroyed: &gt;1,500<br \/>Number of houses damaged: 15,000<br \/>Surface area of crops destroyed: 9,000 hectares<br \/>Economic costs: $86.6 million<br \/>Costs of relief work: $1.9 million from central government and $1.46 million from local government.<\/p>\n<p>To put those economic costs in perspective, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia.xorte.com\/0,5,China-Per-Capita-Cash-Income-of-Rural-Households-Kept-Growth-in-the-Third-Quarter-2008,7161.html\">this report<\/a> suggests that the average per capita income for rural households in China in 2008 is $580.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20081104\/i\/r3377921914.jpg?x=400&amp;y=275&amp;q=85&amp;sig=qgGJzg_BaF5dGk78yokKrw--\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 275px\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20081104\/i\/r3377921914.jpg?x=400&amp;y=275&amp;q=85&amp;sig=qgGJzg_BaF5dGk78yokKrw--\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/slideshow\/photo\/\/081104\/ids_photos_wl\/r3377921914.jpg\/\">Reuters<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial\"> image showing residents clearing the ruins of their destroyed houses after a rain-triggered mudslide hit a village of Xudian County<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a day when a different type of landslide is dominating the news (a happy end to the possibility of four more years of an anti-science administration in the White House), reports continue to come in about the disastrous landslides in Yunnan Province in China on Sunday. Usually it is very difficult to get an estimate of the real costs of landslides, but Xinhua has provided an unusual level of &hellip;<!-- 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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,409,408,407,959,296],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-economic-costs","tag-fatalitites","tag-injuries","tag-landslide-report","tag-yunnan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}