{"id":74,"date":"2010-07-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/07\/09\/increased-landslide-occurrence-at-attabad\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:20","slug":"increased-landslide-occurrence-at-attabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/07\/09\/increased-landslide-occurrence-at-attabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased landslide occurrence at Attabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various media reports suggest that the rate of landslide activity has dramatically increased today on the slopes above the Attabad lake.&nbsp; For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samaa.tv\/News22493-Landslides_continue_in_Ataabad_Hunza.aspx\">SAMAA is reporting<\/a> that &#8220;Series of landsliding still continues in intervals in Ataabad,  Hunza, causing difficutlties for the boat service, SAMAA reported  Friday.&nbsp; Process of landsliding has started in intervals since  last night in Hunza, Ataabad. Boat service however being continuing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A key concern remains the potential for a large failure to create a wave that triggers a rapid breach event.&nbsp; The ability for mass movements to create waves is best illustrated by this video of an ice collapse event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Antarctic glacier collapse\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbUIRELqowg?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>This is a very small collapse event compared with a large rockfall.&nbsp; Large collapses are often preceded by increasing event rates (i.e. in this case increasing rates of rockfall activity).&nbsp; The best (and absolutely fantastic) example of this is a large ice collapse event captured in Argentina.&nbsp; Do watch this if you can!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Perito Moreno Glacier\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAD-G-DoGJk?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><b>This is not to say that such an event is coming in Hunza,<\/b> or indeed that a wave would be large enough to trigger a breach, but the need for caution is clear.<\/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>Various media reports suggest that the rate of landslide activity has dramatically increased today on the slopes above the Attabad lake.&nbsp; For example, SAMAA is reporting that &#8220;Series of landsliding still continues in intervals in Ataabad, Hunza, causing difficutlties for the boat service, SAMAA reported Friday.&nbsp; Process of landsliding has started in intervals since last night in Hunza, Ataabad. Boat service however being continuing.&#8221; A key concern remains the potential &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":[967,47,58,15,10],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attabad","tag-barrier-lake","tag-hunza","tag-landslide-dam","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}