{"id":5400,"date":"2012-11-01T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:11:39","slug":"images-of-landslides-from-the-sikkim-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/01\/images-of-landslides-from-the-sikkim-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of landslides from the Sikkim Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, on 18th September, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_Sikkim_earthquake\">an earthquake<\/a> struck the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/10\/06\/a-first-look-at-nasa-satellite-imagery-of-the-landslides-from-the-sikkim-earthquake\/\">Sikkim area of India and the east of Nepal<\/a>.\u00a0 This event, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/14\/eeri-report-on-the-sikkim-earthquake\/\">which had a moment magnitude of 6.9<\/a>, triggered <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/11\/04\/geological-survey-of-india-report-on-landslide-from-the-sikkim-earthquake\/\">extensive landsliding<\/a>.\u00a0 In the aftermath of the event there was considerable coverage of the impacts in India, but very little information about Nepal.\u00a0 Sumit Dugar, a student on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/ihrr\/graduateprogramme\/taughtmastersprogrammes\/\">MSc in Risk and Environmental Hazards<\/a> here at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/ihrr\/\"> Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham<\/a>, visited the area and has very kindly made some images of the landslides that he observed available.\u00a0 I reproduce them here with his permission, but note that he retains the copyright:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/01\/images-of-landslides-from-the-sikkim-earthquake\/12_10-nepal-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5401\" title=\"12_10 Nepal 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/10\/12_10-Nepal-2-e1351692275544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"629\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/01\/images-of-landslides-from-the-sikkim-earthquake\/12_10-nepal-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5402\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5402\" title=\"12_10 Nepal 3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/10\/12_10-Nepal-3-e1351692316989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/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>Some images of landslides in Nepal triggered by the September 2011 Mw=6.9 Sikkim earthquake<!-- 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":5401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[23,469,983,66],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-images","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-landslide-images","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}