{"id":69,"date":"2010-07-19T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/07\/19\/a-new-landslide-barrier-lake-in-china\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:20","slug":"a-new-landslide-barrier-lake-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/07\/19\/a-new-landslide-barrier-lake-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A new landslide barrier lake in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is suffering dreadfully from landslides this summer, with <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6909\/2010\/07\/19\/1881s583768.htm\">reports overnight<\/a> of at least 20 fatalities in&nbsp; Langao County&nbsp;in Ankang in Shaanxi, and many more killed by landslides in Sichuan and Shaanxi.&nbsp; However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6909\/2010\/07\/19\/1461s583861.htm\">CriEnglish website<\/a> is tonight reporting on a new barrier lake that has formed in Chongqing, forcing the evacuation of 12,000 people.&nbsp; The slide is reported to have occurred on the Luojiang River in Chengkou County.&nbsp; The lake is now reported to&nbsp;have a volume of&nbsp;15 to 20 million cubic meters of water, and to be <br \/>5 square&nbsp;kilometers in area and 18-meters deep!&nbsp; The report also suggests that the teams dispatched to deal with the problem are being slowed by the dreadful weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any country that can deal with a barrier lake it is China, but this will be interesting to watch.<\/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>China is suffering dreadfully from landslides this summer, with reports overnight of at least 20 fatalities in&nbsp; Langao County&nbsp;in Ankang in Shaanxi, and many more killed by landslides in Sichuan and Shaanxi.&nbsp; However, the CriEnglish website is tonight reporting on a new barrier lake that has formed in Chongqing, forcing the evacuation of 12,000 people.&nbsp; The slide is reported to have occurred on the Luojiang River in Chengkou County.&nbsp; 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":[47,16,959],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barrier-lake","tag-china","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}