{"id":5702,"date":"2012-12-29T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2012-12-29T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T08:33:29","slug":"a-very-large-engineered-slope-failure-in-malaysia-bukit-setiawangsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/12\/29\/a-very-large-engineered-slope-failure-in-malaysia-bukit-setiawangsa\/","title":{"rendered":"A very large engineered slope failure in Malaysia – Bukit Setiawangsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overnight 46 houses have had to be evacuated<\/a> at Bukit Setiawangsa, a highly desirable eastern suburb of Kuala Lumpur.\u00a0 This is an engineered wall failure on a very large-scale – the slope is reportedly 43 metres high.\u00a0 This appears to be the wall prior to the failure event (the blog from which this is source<\/a> describes this as “a scary vertical slope protection”):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/tailim.blogspot.co.uk\/2010\/05\/bicycle-ride-around-taman-setiawangsa.html<\/p><\/div>\n

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At present it is not entirely clear what has happened to the wall.\u00a0 At first sight (from this Twitter image<\/a>) it appears that it has undergone a localised failure on one side, but I suspect that such an initial interpretation is misleading:<\/p>\n

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Images from other perspectives suggest to me that a somewhat larger failure of the slope has occurred, although at this stage this is just speculation.\u00a0 This image (from here<\/a>) for example suggests that there is another substantial crack running down the wall:<\/p>\n

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Whilst this one suggests that there is a tension crack at the end of the wall as well:<\/p>\n

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Thus, I would speculate<\/strong><\/em> (and note that at this stage it is pure speculation) that the left section of the wall has undergone failure and has moved outwards and downwards.\u00a0 This image (from here<\/a>) at least hints at that:<\/p>\n

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This would explain why at least one property at the top of the slope has collapsed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The two images suggest that the lower part of the wall has moved outwards, whilst the top of the slope has moved downwards, which would suggest a rotational failure<\/a> behind the wall.<\/p>\n

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Malaysia suffered a very impressive failure in an engineered slope at Bukit Setiawangsa near Kuala Lumpur yesterday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[684,685,469,244],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cut-slope","tag-engineered-slope","tag-featured","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","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=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}