{"id":5483,"date":"2012-11-14T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:21:08","slug":"a-rather-beautiful-rockslide-in-moab-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/14\/a-rather-beautiful-rockslide-in-moab-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"A interesting rockslide in Moab, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Bill Scarber for bringing this one to my attention.\u00a0 On 5th November a rockslide occurred about 15 km west of Moab in the Utah desert, damaging a railway line that is used to transport potash from a mine to market.\u00a0 The rockslide destroyed about 100 m of the line and also punched a large crater into a local road, Route 279.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/index.php?sid=22937961&amp;nid=148&amp;title=massive-rockslide-damages-rail-road-near-moab\">KSL has a rather nice video that shows images of the site<\/a>, which may or may not embed below:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=867d4282160b46dd950e18d5325c9ab8&amp;ec=p5bGV2Njo1mVg3tr8alVkS2owFsL_gpO\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865566574\/Rockslide-near-Moab-damages-road-rail-line.html\">Alternatively, the images can be seen here<\/a>.\u00a0 These two images show the damage to the line and to the highway:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/14\/a-rather-beautiful-rockslide-in-moab-utah\/12_11-moab-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5488\" title=\"12_11 Moab 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/11\/14\/a-rather-beautiful-rockslide-in-moab-utah\/12_11-moab-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5489\" title=\"12_11 Moab 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/11\/12_11-Moab-2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The railway line was reopened today.<\/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 interesting news reports and images of a rockslide near to Moab in Utah, 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":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[469,959,136,48,535],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","category-uncategorized","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-rockslide","tag-usa","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","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=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}