{"id":6921,"date":"2013-09-24T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2013-09-24T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:00:42","slug":"recent-fatal-landslides-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/09\/24\/recent-fatal-landslides-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent fatal landslides in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Pacific has been very disturbed over the last few days thanks to Typhoon Usagi, which has disrupted airflow patterns over a large area.\u00a0 Although not struck directly by the storm, over the weekend Zambales in the Philippines suffered very heavy rainfall, triggering several very damaging landslides.\u00a0 The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal.com.ph\/index.php\/news\/top-stories\/58676-19-killed-6-missing-in-twin-landslides\"> Journal online<\/a> has provided a report detailing the impacts, based on an army report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Sitio Pawen, Barangay Aglao, San Marcellino: four deaths from a single family;<\/li>\n<li>In Barangay San Idriso, Subic: five deaths<\/li>\n<li>In Barangay Cawag, near Barangay Wawandue, Subic: 10 confirmed deaths, six people missing and one person severely injured.\u00a0 This landslide is shown in this image, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2013\/09\/24\/1237497\/landslides-floods-kill-22-zambales\">PhilStar.com<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_6922\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Cawag-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6922\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6922\" alt=\"13_09 Cawag 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Cawag-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Cawag-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/09\/13_09-Cawag-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2013\/09\/24\/1237497\/landslides-floods-kill-22-zambales<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>Landslide hazards in the Philippines remain exceptionally high.\u00a0 The image above illustrates the extreme vulnerability of communities in upland areas to these events.\u00a0 September and October are key landslide periods in this area, primarily because of the effects of late season typhoons.\u00a0 Fortunately, at present no such systems are threatening the area.<\/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>In the last two days three landslides in the Philippines have killed 25 people<!-- 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":6922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,959,979,252],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-monsoon","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","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=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}