{"id":7300,"date":"2013-12-02T07:43:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2013-12-02T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T07:43:02","slug":"nine-people-die-in-a-landslide-in-north-sumatra-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/12\/02\/nine-people-die-in-a-landslide-in-north-sumatra-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine people die in a landslide in North Sumatra, Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late November \/ early December is the start of the rainy season in parts of Indonesia, which is usually accompanied by an increase in landslides.\u00a0 Thus it is no surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303670804579232090924634338.html\">various news agencies<\/a> have reported that nine people were killed\u00a0on Saturday in a landslide at Berastagi in North Sumatra, Indonesia.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/breaking-news\/se-asia\/story\/nine-killed-indonesian-flooding-landslide-official-20131201\">Singapore Sunday Times <\/a>has this image of the landslide:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/12\/13_12-Indonesia-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7301\" alt=\"Brastagi landslide\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2013\/12\/13_12-Indonesia-1-e1385969616303.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: AP and Singapore Sunday Times: http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/breaking-news\/se-asia\/story\/nine-killed-indonesian-flooding-landslide-official-20131201<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>This appears to have started as a small translational slip that entrained debris en route to the bottom of the slope.\u00a0 The debris train suggests that there may have been at least one house directly in the path of the slide.<\/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>Reports suggest that nine people were killed in a landslide triggered by rainfall at Brastagi in North Sumatra, Indonesia on Saturday<!-- 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":7301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141,959],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-indonesia","tag-landslide-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","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=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}