{"id":5609,"date":"2012-12-04T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2012-12-04T23:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:53:48","slug":"first-news-of-the-impact-of-super-typhoon-bopha-pablo-a-major-flash-flood-debris-flow-has-killed-43-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/12\/04\/first-news-of-the-impact-of-super-typhoon-bopha-pablo-a-major-flash-flood-debris-flow-has-killed-43-people\/","title":{"rendered":"First news of the impact of Super Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) – a major flash flood \/ debris flow has killed 44 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

As dawn breaks in the Philippines this morning the first reports are starting to come in of the damage and losses associated with Ttphoon Bopha (Pablo) yesterday in Mindanao.\u00a0 It is important to stress at this point that the storm os certainly not finished as yet – later today it will cross Palawan and then it is expected to lurk to the west of the Philippines for a few days, drawing in heavy rainfall across the nation in the process.\u00a0 Reports at the moment are understandably patchy, especially from isolated rural and coastal areas.\u00a0 The largest loss thus far appears to be in Campostela Valley<\/a>,\u00a0 This area, which has many mines, has a long history of landslides (see this previous report for example<\/a>).\u00a0 The incident during the passage of Bopha is variously reported to be a flash flood or a landslide – in most cases this means that the event was a debris flow in my experience.\u00a0 It occurred at an army base at Barangay Andap in New Bataan<\/a>, killing 44 people.\u00a0 The exact circumstances are still unclear, but more information will almost certainly become available during the day.<\/p>\n

GMA News has a video, which should be visible below, which shows a landslide being cleared.\u00a0 I do not think that this is the event described above, but I don’t speak Tagalog:
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