{"id":7281,"date":"2013-11-21T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2013-11-21T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:49:30","slug":"haiyan-storm-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/11\/21\/haiyan-storm-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"The extraordinary footage of the Typhoon Haiyan storm surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Context of the storm surge video<\/h4>\n<p>Whilst this is a landslide blog, I could not ignore the extraordinary footage that has appeared in the last few days of the Typhoon Haiyan storm surge in the Philippines.\u00a0 Nickson Gensis, who took this video was sheltering upstairs in a solidly built house in Hernani in Eastern Samar when the storm struck.\u00a0 This map shows the approximate location of Hernani relative to the track of the eye of the storm:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7282\" alt=\"Storm surge\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-1.jpg 1372w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-1-1024x736.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>And this is an image (from here) of the village after the storm had passed through:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7283\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7283\" alt=\"Storm surge\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-2.jpg\" width=\"607\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-2.jpg 607w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/11\/13_11-Hernani-2-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/photos\/galleries\/2013\/nov\/14\/diarrhea-starvation-begin-take-toll-philippines\/80256\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">..<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">The storm surge video<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rS0gv4Xbw7w\">his remarkable video is on Youtube<\/a> and should be embedded below.\u00a0 The really interesting part occurs from about 40 seconds, so do stick with it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eyewitness footage of Typhoon Haiyan washing house away\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rS0gv4Xbw7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The damage shown in the picture above can be seen in a quite different light once you have seen this video.\u00a0 The high levels of loss are really unsurprising, and one can only imagine the terror of those who were in the path of the storm surge.\u00a0 This should be compulsory viewing for those who think it is acceptable to continue to increase the temperature of, and thus the amount of kinetic energy, our atmosphere.<\/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>Some amazing footage has emerged of the moment that the storm surge from Typhoon Haiyan struck the town of Hernani in Eastern Samar, Philippines<!-- 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":7283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[650,751,252,975,35],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-typhoon","tag-feature","tag-haiyan","tag-philippines","tag-typhoon","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","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=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}