{"id":5457,"date":"2012-11-11T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2012-11-11T07:39:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T07:39:12","slug":"first-news-of-the-burma-earthquake-and-an-update-on-landslides-from-the-guatemala-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/11\/first-news-of-the-burma-earthquake-and-an-update-on-landslides-from-the-guatemala-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"First news of the Burma earthquake and an update on landslides from the Guatemala earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. The Burma earthquake<\/strong><\/p>\n

The M = 6.8 earthquake in Burma<\/a> (I refuse to use the term Myanmar) this morning occurred at a depth of less than 10 km according the USGS, which should suggest that the impact has not been insignificant.\u00a0 The PAGER system calculates<\/a> a 32% likelihood on 1 to 100 fatalities and a 32% likelihood of 100 to 1000 fatalities.\u00a0 However, initial reports suggest losses at the bottom end of the scale<\/a>, although it is early days.\u00a0 The location of the epicentre, shown below, suggests that landslides might be an issue in at least a part of the area:<\/p>\n

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2. The Guatemala earthquake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overnight more information has emerged about the impact of the Guatemala earthquake<\/a>.\u00a0 Interestingly, this has seen the total number of lives lost adjusted downward to 42, with just two people reported missing.\u00a0 However, the loss of life from landslides has now risen to 28 with news that the largest single fatality event in the earthquake, the loss of ten lives from a single family, was due to a landslide in a quarry at San Crist\u00f3bal Cucho<\/a>.\u00a0 The family consisted of the parents plus six children aged 14 and under.\u00a0 One additional member of the family, aged 19, survived because he was not in the quarry at the time.<\/p>\n

This new information means that landslides are now known to have claimed 28 out of 44 likely deaths, i.e about 62%.\u00a0 Of these, 25 deaths appear to have occurred in three quarry collapses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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