{"id":6938,"date":"2013-10-01T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T07:46:07","slug":"a-rockslide-on-mount-priceton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/10\/01\/a-rockslide-on-mount-priceton\/","title":{"rendered":"Five people killed in rockslide on Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day that the USGS has been effectively closed indefinitely as part of the US Government shutdown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=11132984\">news is emerging<\/a> of a large, fatal rockslide on Mount Princeton in Chaffee Count, Colorado.\u00a0 At the time of writing five bodies have been found, and one injured person, a teenage girl, has been flown to hospital.\u00a0 The bodies of the people who have been killed have yet to be recovered as the landslide is still active.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/authorities-hikers-trapped-colo-rock-slide-20425066\">According to reports<\/a> the landslide occurred on the flanks of Mount Princeton at a viewing point for the Agnes Vaille falls in Chalk Creek Canyon.\u00a0 The map below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localhikes.com\/HikeData.ASP?DispType=1&amp;ActiveHike=0&amp;GetHikesStateID=&amp;ID=5591\">from here<\/a>, shows the location of the falls and the trail that leads to them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6939\" alt=\"Mount Princeton\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-2.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-2.jpg 533w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-2-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the Google Earth perspective image of the same site.\u00a0 The star is the approximate location of the waterfall, the arrow points to what appears to be an existing rockslide scar:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6940\" alt=\"Mount Princeton perspective image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/10\/13_10-Colorado-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1148554\/five-hikers-killed-in-colorado-rock-slide\">Some reports suggest<\/a> that one person remains missing.<\/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 rockslide on Monday on the flanks of Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, Colorado killed five people and left a teenage girls with a broken leg<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt 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