{"id":587,"date":"2008-09-04T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/09\/04\/the-physics-of-landslides\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:43:15","slug":"the-physics-of-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/09\/04\/the-physics-of-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"The physics of landslides&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice illustration that the physical rules that control landslides are the same the world over (or that journalists play games occasionally&#8230;).  Below is the well-known <a href=\"http:\/\/education.usgs.gov\/schoolyard\/IMAGES\/GRAINSIZE\/LaConchitaLandslide_air.jpg\">USGS image<\/a> of the 1995 La Conchita landslide in California:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.usgs.gov\/schoolyard\/IMAGES\/GRAINSIZE\/LaConchitaLandslide_air.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 183px;height: 238px\" src=\"http:\/\/education.usgs.gov\/schoolyard\/IMAGES\/GRAINSIZE\/LaConchitaLandslide_air.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Compare the above image with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080901\/jsp\/knowhow\/story_9768501.jsp\">Telegraph Calcutta<\/a> picture of a landslide at  St Antony\u2019s Colony in Munnar, India.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080901\/images\/109lead4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 159px;height: 233px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080901\/images\/109lead4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Almost a mirror image! Hmmm&#8230;&#8230;.!<\/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>This is a nice illustration that the physical rules that control landslides are the same the world over (or that journalists play games occasionally&#8230;). Below is the well-known USGS image of the 1995 La Conchita landslide in California: Compare the above image with this Telegraph Calcutta picture of a landslide at St Antony\u2019s Colony in Munnar, India. Almost a mirror image! Hmmm&#8230;&#8230;.!<!-- 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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,5,433,434],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-images","tag-india","tag-la-conchita","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}