{"id":6864,"date":"2013-09-09T06:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:26:26","slug":"stehekin-mudflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/09\/09\/stehekin-mudflow\/","title":{"rendered":"A large mudflow at Stehekin in Washington State, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattletimes.com\/today\/2013\/09\/cars-buried-in-stehekin-mudslide\/\">On Thursday an intense thunderstorm<\/a> struck Stehekin in the North Cascades National Park in Washington State, USA.\u00a0 The storm triggered a large and quite dramatic debris flow that\u00a0 inundated a car park and a number of buildings.\u00a0 The National Parks Service has put a number of photos of the event on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northcascadesnationalpark\/sets\/72157635421195577\/\">Flickr page<\/a> &#8211; they rather nicely illustrate the damage that such an event can cause:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6865\" alt=\"13_09 Chelan 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-1.jpg\" width=\"527\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-1.jpg 527w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6866 aligncenter\" alt=\"13_09 Chelan 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-2.jpg\" width=\"527\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-2.jpg 527w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Chelan-2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2021785276_stehekinmudslidexml.html\">this article<\/a> explores the possible causes of the landslide, which appears to be larger than is normal in this region.\u00a0 They speculate that a factor may be recent forest fires in the area, which has left the soil vulnerable to landslides.\u00a0 This is entirely possible as a causative factor.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ellen Hardy for he pointing this event out to me.<\/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>The North Cascades National Park Service has released some dramatic photographs of a debris flow that struck Stehekin in Washington State on Thursday<!-- 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":6866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,469,48,410],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-debris-flow","tag-featured","tag-usa","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}