{"id":5870,"date":"2013-01-30T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T08:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2013-01-30T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T08:36:32","slug":"an-unusual-quarry-landslide-in-canada-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/01\/30\/an-unusual-quarry-landslide-in-canada-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"An unusual quarry landslide in Canada yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat unusual quarry landslide occurred yesterday at the Maskimo Quarry in L&#8217;Epiphanie in Quebec, Canada.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/search-suspended-for-workers-missing-in-collapsed-quarry-1.1134230\">Montreal CTV News<\/a> has a good aerial image of the site and the landslide:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5871\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/01\/30\/an-unusual-quarry-landslide-in-canada-yesterday\/13_01-quarry-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5871\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5871\" title=\"13_01 Quarry 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/01\/13_01-Quarry-1-e1359534025320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/search-suspended-for-workers-missing-in-collapsed-quarry-1.1134230<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On initial inspection the slip appears to have originated in the materials in the slope above the main quarry face, and then to have cascaded over the edge into the main excavation.\u00a0 Sadly, there were two trucks and excavator on the slope at the time, all of which ended up in the 100 m deep pit.\u00a0 One of the three people operating this equipment was recovered with only reasonably minor injuries; the other two remain missing.\u00a0 The image below, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal\/Workers+missing+after+quarry+land+slide+%C3%89piphanie\/7887851\/story.html\">Montreal Gazette<\/a>, shows just what a difficult task the rescuers face:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5872\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/01\/30\/an-unusual-quarry-landslide-in-canada-yesterday\/13_01-quarry-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5872\" title=\"13_01 Quarry 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/01\/13_01-Quarry-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/01\/13_01-Quarry-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/01\/13_01-Quarry-2-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal\/Workers+missing+after+quarry+land+slide+%C3%89piphanie\/7887851\/story.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It appears to me that the access road for the main excavation has also been buried, which will hamper the recovery operation.<\/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>A somewhat unusual quarry landslide occurred yesterday at the Maskimo Quarry in L&#8217;Epiphanie in Quebec, Canada.\u00a0 Montreal CTV News has a good aerial image of the site and the landslide: On initial inspection the slip appears to have originated in the materials in the slope above the main quarry face, and then to have cascaded over the edge into the main excavation.\u00a0 Sadly, there were two trucks and excavator on &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":5871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,469,959,471],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-quarry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","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=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}