{"id":6493,"date":"2013-06-04T06:53:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2013-06-04T06:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:53:26","slug":"rockfalls-and-landslides-from-the-taiwan-earthquake-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/06\/04\/rockfalls-and-landslides-from-the-taiwan-earthquake-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockfalls and landslides from the Taiwan earthquake on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/\">M=6.2 earthquake in Central Taiwan<\/a> on Sunday (2nd June 2013) was located in a highly mountainous, but fortunately sparsely populated, area.\u00a0 Landslides are inevitable in such an event, and news reports suggest that much of the damage and most of the deaths and injuries were the result of rockfalls.\u00a0 This video, captured just after the earthquake, demonstrates the landslide activity that it caused:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jaqGBZKkeho<\/p>\n<p>..<br \/>\nThe current toll from the earthquake is four people.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/front\/archives\/2013\/06\/04\/2003563917\">It appears likely that all were killed by rockfalls<\/a>.<\/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  video of rockslides from the 2nd June 2013 M=6.2 earthquake in Taiwan<!-- 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":[537],"tags":[23,963,56,136,81],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-earthquake","tag-landslide-video","tag-rockfall","tag-rockslide","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","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=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}