{"id":565,"date":"2008-09-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/09\/30\/further-update-on-situation-in-sichuan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:43:00","slug":"further-update-on-situation-in-sichuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/09\/30\/further-update-on-situation-in-sichuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Further update on situation in Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The China Daily has today published an article that describes the situation around Beichuan as a result of the current heavy rains.  The article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2008-09\/30\/content_7070779.htm\">here<\/a>.  The situation is sounding increasingly dangerous.  For example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of heavy rains and incessant mudslides, the plan to rebuild quake-devastated Beichuan county in northern Sichuan province as an earthquake museum has been put on hold, a local official said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A large part of the county is now buried under the mudslides caused by unprecedented downpour since last Wednesday.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beichuan &#8230; consists of an old town in the southwest and a new town in the northeast. Half of the old town has already been buried by mudslides. Only two roofs could be seen in the 1 sq km area. In some places, the mud is even more than 40 m deep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As if the mudslides were not enough, there&#8217;s a looming threat of floods as the mudslides from mountains have blocked the upper reaches of the river, Lin said&#8221; [Lin Chuan is the head of local culture and tourist bureau].<\/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>The China Daily has today published an article that describes the situation around Beichuan as a result of the current heavy rains. The article is here. The situation is sounding increasingly dangerous. For example: &#8220;As a result of heavy rains and incessant mudslides, the plan to rebuild quake-devastated Beichuan county in northern Sichuan province as an earthquake museum has been put on hold, a local official said.&#8221; &#8220;A large part &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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,16,171,132],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-333","tag-china","tag-earthquake-conference","tag-sichuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}