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The extreme rainfall event in Uttarakhand in June was without doubt the most deadly multiple landslide event of the year.\u00a0 The twin debris flows<\/a> that struck the temple at Kedarnath<\/a> were the defining event of the disaster, with a very complicated origin<\/a>.\u00a0 This event also presages the types of event that we can expect in the future as the climate in high mountain areas continues to change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riotinto-kennecottutahcopper\/8643310015\/in\/photostream<\/p><\/div>\n ..<\/p>\n The award for the most spectacular landslide goes to the Bingham Canyon slide<\/a> in Utah in April.\u00a0 This may well be the largest mining-induced rapid collapse of all time<\/a>, and the most expensive single landslide <\/a>too.\u00a0 That the slide was anticipated is notable<\/a>, although it does appear that the volume and runout distance were somewhat greater than had been expected.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/photo\/2013-03\/30\/c_132273063_3.htm<\/p><\/div>\n ..<\/p>\n On the subject of mining induced landslides, in March the spectacular and remarkable mining induced landslide at Jiama \/ Gyama in Tibet <\/a>killed 83 workers.\u00a0 Although denied by the authorities, there is little doubt that this slide was triggered by the mining activity<\/a>.\u00a0 The long runout and high mobility of the debris is notable, as is the continuing lack of information about the event, in notable contrast to Bingham Canyon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jgxArPD5xS2gHI95daKQfXYvvyNA?docId=CNG.f3b813c83565864ba6d2d2ae56dd28ec.6c1<\/p><\/div>\n ..<\/p>\n In September, a pair of tropical cyclones brought exceptional rainfall to Mexico, triggering floods and landslides.\u00a0 The most spectacular event occurred in the village of La Pintada<\/a>, where a large landslide struck the town<\/a>, killing 68 people.\u00a0 This is the type of event that is extremely difficult to anticipate, but deadly in terms of impact.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/mw1.google.com\/crisisresponse\/2013-japan-typhoon\/photos\/DSC00490.JPG<\/p><\/div>\n ..<\/p>\n Finally, the multiple debris flows at<\/a> Izu-Oshima, triggered by typhoon Wipha, were remarkable not just for the cost in terms of lives lost (which was unusual for a more developed country), but also for the mechanisms of failure.\u00a0 In this case, as the image above shows, the entire side of the hill has failed in multiple shallow landslides<\/a>.<\/p>\n I am sure that you may have a different list – please feel free to post your list, or to disagree with mine, in the form of a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A personal review of the five most important landslides of 2013, including Kedarnath (India), Bingham Canyon (USA), Gyama (Tibet), La Pintada (Mexico) and Izu-Oshima (Japan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[758,57,749,959,205,184],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-758","tag-debris-flow","tag-kedaranath","tag-landslide-report","tag-mining","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","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=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2.The Bingham Canyon Landslide in Utah<\/h5>\n
<\/a>3. The Jiama \/ Gyama mining landslide in Tibet<\/h5>\n
<\/a>4. The La Pintada landslide in Mexico<\/h5>\n
<\/a>5. The Izu-Oshima debris flows in Japan<\/h5>\n
<\/a>Please submit your list<\/h5>\n