{"id":6740,"date":"2013-07-26T05:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2013-07-26T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:47:47","slug":"spectacular-landslides-from-the-gansu-earthquake-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/07\/26\/spectacular-landslides-from-the-gansu-earthquake-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular landslides from the Gansu earthquake this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The M=6.6 earthquake in Gansu province this week<\/a> killed about 100 people in a poor area of China.\u00a0 Gansu is earthquake-triggered landslide country – the great M=8.5 earthquake of 1920 killed between 70,000 and 200,000 people<\/a>, many of them in huge seismically triggered flowslides that buried whole towns.\u00a0 So, even though the event this week was by comparison a small earthquake, it is unsurprising to find that landslides have been a significant issue.\u00a0 News from the earthquake-affected area is scarce, but the Big Picture, the photo section of Boston.com, has a wonderful gallery of images from the area<\/a>.\u00a0 The best of these shows two spectacular flowslide failures:<\/p>\n

\"flowslide<\/a>

Courtesy of the Big Picture: http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2013\/07\/earthquake_in_gansu_province_c.html<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

Other images show the aftermath of the landslides; this one for example has blocked a road:<\/p>\n

\"Aftermath<\/a>

Courtesy of the Big Picture: http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2013\/07\/earthquake_in_gansu_province_c.html<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

And this one shows a slightly strange rockfall in loess – I am now really sure how one should classify such a phenomenon:<\/p>\n

\"Loess<\/a>

Courtesy of the Big Picture: http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2013\/07\/earthquake_in_gansu_province_c.html<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the timing of this earthquake early in the wet season was likely to generate significant post-seismic landslide issues, so it is no surprise to see news reports today of severe rainfall-induced landslides in the earthquake-affected area<\/a>.\u00a0 Xinhua reports<\/a> that it is likely that nine people have been killed in one of the landslides, in Nanyu Village, Niangniangba Township, Qinzhou District\u00a0 within Tianshui City administrative area, burying 13 people. A further four people are missing after another landslide, this time in Yongguang Village.\u00a0 Landslides will be a big problem in this area during any heavy rain this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Images have emerged of spectacular flowslides triggered by the Gansu earthquake this week, whilst 13 people have been killed bost post-seismic landslides today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537,1],"tags":[16,23,469,14],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-flowslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}