{"id":6151,"date":"2013-03-28T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T08:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:36:16","slug":"a-new-landslide-on-whidbey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/03\/28\/a-new-landslide-on-whidbey-island\/","title":{"rendered":"A new landslide on Whidbey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to the various people, too numerous to mention, who highlighted this event to me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/2012\/07\/27\/the-amazing-vanishing-garden\/\">Whidbey Island<\/a> in Washington State in NW USA is a well-known landslide site, and indeed has appeared on this blog before.\u00a0 Yesterday a new landslide developed on a coastal cliff, destroying one house and threatening a further 30 or so.\u00a0 This appears to be the site before the landslide, as shown on Google Earth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bVSZKDnV-OM\/UVP3_1p3nkI\/AAAAAAAAD4g\/Kk_zJ9sgXcA\/s1600\/13_03+Whidbey+1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-bVSZKDnV-OM\/UVP3_1p3nkI\/AAAAAAAAD4g\/Kk_zJ9sgXcA\/s640\/13_03+Whidbey+1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"459\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a really fantastic set of images on the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/photogalleries\/localnews2020650059\/2.html\">Seattle Times blog<\/a>, taken from both the air and the ground.\u00a0 This one gives a really good view of the landslide itself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-zN3EgEh9vjE\/UVP5CfrR7DI\/AAAAAAAAD4s\/HWSa5Q_Q0_U\/s1600\/13_03+Whidbey+3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-zN3EgEh9vjE\/UVP5CfrR7DI\/AAAAAAAAD4s\/HWSa5Q_Q0_U\/s640\/13_03+Whidbey+3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"1146\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/photogalleries\/localnews2020650059\/2.html (c) Ted Warren \/ AP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An interesting aspect of this is to compare the state of the top of the cliff with that after the landslide.\u00a0 This is a post landslide view, also from the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/photogalleries\/localnews2020650059\/2.html\">Seattle Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-prNIA4J-wMk\/UVP5ju2uguI\/AAAAAAAAD48\/7ColWbOdy9c\/s1600\/13_03+Whidbey+2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-prNIA4J-wMk\/UVP5ju2uguI\/AAAAAAAAD48\/7ColWbOdy9c\/s640\/13_03+Whidbey+2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/photogalleries\/localnews2020650059\/2.html (c) Ted Warren \/ AP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a similar view from the Google Earth imagery:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3zh4KP5z2IQ\/UVP6C0YKqvI\/AAAAAAAAD5E\/KcZMX_0m3qk\/s1600\/13_03+Whidbey+4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-3zh4KP5z2IQ\/UVP6C0YKqvI\/AAAAAAAAD5E\/KcZMX_0m3qk\/s640\/13_03+Whidbey+4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The length of cliff top lost is actually rather small given the size of the landslide.\u00a0 This, in this case most of the movement is in material already at the bottom of the cliff rather than a large detachment from the top.\u00a0 This may well explain why there are no obvious cracks on the Google Earth imagery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 landslide occurred yesterday on Whidbey Island, USA.  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