{"id":5755,"date":"2013-01-11T08:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2013-01-11T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:19:31","slug":"at-least-18-killed-in-a-landslide-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/01\/11\/at-least-18-killed-in-a-landslide-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 killed in a landslide in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese News agencies are reporting that a landslide overnight buried 16 households in Gaopo Village of Zhenxiong County, in Yunnan Province, China.\u00a0 Whilst estimates vary as to the number of known fatalities, CRIEnglish reports<\/a> 18 confirmed deaths from a total of 40 people buried in the landslide.\u00a0 On the other hand, China Daily is reporting<\/a>\u00a0 16 deaths and 37 people unaccounted for, so it seems inevitable that the fatality count will rise further.<\/p>\n

The timing of this event looks interesting and perhaps surprising.\u00a0 The images of the landslide seem to show a thin covering of quite fresh snow, which is not an obvious condition for landslide triggering.\u00a0 The overview image<\/a>, shown below, is also interesting:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6909\/2013\/01\/11\/2702s743084_2.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

Judging by this image, the landslide was a reasonably rapid flow consisting mainly of mud and soil rather than bedrock:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2013-01\/11\/content_16106028.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

Whilst it is too early to know for certain, I wonder if even the overview image above might be just the lower portion of a rather larger landslide somewhere in the hills upstream of the village, although I remain confused by the apparent small failure in a bluff on the far right of the first image.\u00a0 This does not on first inspection seem large enough to be the source of this landslide, unless there was a huge amount of entrainment (picking up of debris) along the way.\u00a0 It is all quite strange – an aerial image would be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large landslide in China overnight has killed at least 18 people, with up to 37 more people reported missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,534,469,959],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-china","tag-earthflow","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}