{"id":6355,"date":"2013-04-27T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2013-04-27T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T08:28:00","slug":"landslide-hazards-in-the-aftermath-of-the-lushan-earthquake-in-sichuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/04\/27\/landslide-hazards-in-the-aftermath-of-the-lushan-earthquake-in-sichuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide hazards in the aftermath of the Lushan earthquake in Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Chinese media outlets have articles about the threats posed by landslides in the aftermath of the 20th May 2013 Lushan earthquake in Sichuan Province.\u00a0 It is clear from the imagery (<a href=\"http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/20130422\/102663_2.shtml\">such as the image below<\/a>) that landslides have represented a very significant component of the costs of this earthquake, although at present it is not clear just how many of the deaths were caused by mass movements.\u00a0 The next major threat is the upcoming rainy season &#8211; just weeks away &#8211; which will inevitably cause a combination of further first time failures and debris flows of released materials. Ya&#8217;an, the County in which Lushan sits, is nicknamed &#8220;the city of rain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6356\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/04\/27\/landslide-hazards-in-the-aftermath-of-the-lushan-earthquake-in-sichuan\/13_04-china-eq-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6356\" class=\" wp-image-6356\" title=\"13_04 China EQ 4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/04\/13_04-China-EQ-4-e1367050927803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/20130422\/102663_2.shtml<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>In terms of costs, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/china\/2013-04\/26\/c_124633092.htm\">Xinhua are reporting<\/a> 196 fatalities, 21 people missing and 13,484 injured.\u00a0 The level of damage is very high &#8211; <span id=\"Zoom\">86,300 buildings have collapsed in the quake and about 430,000 houses have been seriously damaged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.eastday.com\/e\/130427\/u1a7355634.html\">Eastday China<\/a> reports that a team of 400 geohazards specialists are working to identify hazards, and are developing warning and evacuation plans.\u00a0 Emphasis is rightly being placed on the emergency camps, which are often extremely vulnerable.\u00a0 Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/7146\/2013\/04\/27\/191s762021.htm\">CRI English<\/a> has an interesting report about landslides that have been deposited into river channels.\u00a0 Whilst these are not valley blocking at present, the loss of flow capacity may allow a lake to develop during the high flow period.\u00a0 Clearly this is unacceptably dangerous.\u00a0 The army are undertaking controlled blasting to clear the blockage.<\/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>Information is now emerging about the response by the authorities to the threat of landslides in the upcoming rainy season in the area affected by the Lushan earthquake in Sichuan Provice, China<!-- 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":6356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[16,23,469,185,56,132],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-china","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-landslide","tag-rockfall","tag-sichuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","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=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}