{"id":5740,"date":"2013-01-08T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:31:10","slug":"increased-occurrence-of-landslides-in-the-uk-in-the-last-year-and-the-relationship-to-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/01\/08\/increased-occurrence-of-landslides-in-the-uk-in-the-last-year-and-the-relationship-to-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased occurrence of landslides in the UK in the last year – and the relationship to rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British Geological Survey have posted a nice piece on their website<\/a> about the increased occurrence of landslides in the UK in the last year<\/a>.\u00a0 This includes the following graph, which shows rather well just what an extraordinary year 2012 has been, and in particular the increased occurrence of landslides in December:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, they also include a map of the landslides that have occurred around the UK in the last few weeks:<\/p>\n

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Note that there is a big cluster of landslides in Southwest England and then extending northwards to North Yorkshire, with a smaller number scattered around the rest of the country.\u00a0 It is interesting to compare this uneven landslide distribution with rainfall data.\u00a0 This is the Met Office rainfall anomaly map for 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Note that this is variation from average rainfall – i.e. the dark blue areas had >135% of average rainfall for that area.\u00a0 The general pattern is clear – even if the fit is not perfect – in areas in which rainfall anomalies were hig for the year the occurrence of landslides was in general also high.\u00a0 Although this is unsurprising, it is a nice illustration of the ways that rainfall changes drive landslide triggering in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BGS have posted an article about increased occurrence of British landslides recently. There is an interesting spatial relationshipwith Met Office rainfall data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,469,959,133],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-database","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","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=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}