{"id":6434,"date":"2013-05-23T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2013-05-23T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T08:32:57","slug":"a-wonderful-new-progressive-failure-rockslide-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/05\/23\/a-wonderful-new-progressive-failure-rockslide-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A wonderful new progressive failure rockslide video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a hat-tip to L\u00e9l\u00e9, who pointed this out to me, below is probably the best video of a progressive failure event that has appeared to date.\u00a0 It has been posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rts.ch\/video\/info\/journal-continu\/4913479-effondrement-d-une-falaise-a-riddes-vs.html\">rts.ch website<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a landslide that occurred at Riddes in Southwest Switzerland on Friday.\u00a0 It had volume of about 60,000 cubic metres.\u00a0 I have tried to embed it, but WordPress does funny things (life was so much easier on Blogger sometimes!), so if it doesn&#8217;t work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rts.ch\/video\/info\/journal-continu\/4913479-effondrement-d-une-falaise-a-riddes-vs.html\">take a look here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rts.ch\/embed\/KcDf\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>The block was presumably creeping, generating the collapses at the margins.\u00a0 The event (rockfall) rate noticeably increases before final failure.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that there is still a great deal of material to leave this slope.<\/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 new video has appeared that shows a large progressive rockslide in action.  It was taken at the town of Riddes in Switzerland in Friday<!-- 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[959,963,136,444],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-landslide-report","tag-landslide-video","tag-rockslide","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","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=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}