{"id":641,"date":"2008-05-29T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/05\/29\/two-new-photographs-of-the-beichuan-area\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:55:25","slug":"two-new-photographs-of-the-beichuan-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2008\/05\/29\/two-new-photographs-of-the-beichuan-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new photographs of the Beichuan area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these two new images, both from AP, of the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Beichuan<\/span> area.<\/p>\n<p>The first shows the landslide that struck <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Beichuan<\/span> itself. The landslide is on the left side of the image.  Note the debris piled up around its edges &#8211; the landslide has clearly bulldozed all <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">before<\/span> it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/08_05-beichuan-town.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/08_05-beichuan-town.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The second is an alarming image of the work underway on the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Tangjiashan<\/span> landslide dam. The shear scale of the blockage is clear.  Of great concern here though is the steepness of the slope.  Controlling water flow in a channel on slopes like this will be immensely difficult.  The potential of<span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\"> scouring<\/span> out of the channel, and thus of rapid collapse, is worrying.  Looking on the bright side, seepage shouldn&#8217;t be an imminent problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/08_05-Tangiashan-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/08_05-Tangiashan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/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>I came across these two new images, both from AP, of the Beichuan area. The first shows the landslide that struck Beichuan itself. The landslide is on the left side of the image. Note the debris piled up around its edges &#8211; the landslide has clearly bulldozed all before it. The second is an alarming image of the work underway on the Tangjiashan landslide dam. The shear scale of the &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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,16,23,15,456,132],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-333","tag-china","tag-earthquake","tag-landslide-dam","tag-landslide-sizes","tag-sichuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}