{"id":7800,"date":"2014-01-19T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2014-01-19T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:20:58","slug":"liguria-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/01\/19\/liguria-landslides\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential rain in Italy and France, especially in Liguria, causes landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Liguria landslides<\/h5>\n<p>Over the last few days northwestern Italy and southeastern France have been suffering from intense rainfall, triggering widespread landslides.Worst affected seems to the Liguria region of Italy, for which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus-fen.net\/news\/2014\/01\/18\/324464\/highest-level-of-alert-issued-for-italys-liguria-over-torrential-rain.html\">reports suggest that the highest level of alert has been issued<\/a>.\u00a0 I have been able to track down the following images of some of the landslides that the rainfall has triggered (note that all of the links are to Italian websites):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapresse.it\/cronaca\/maltempo-in-liguria-oltre-100-frane-e-almeno-200-evacuati-1.446933\">La Presse<\/a> reports that over 100 landslides have been triggered in Liguria alone, and includes this image of one of them:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7801\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7801 \" alt=\"Liguria\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.lapresse.it\/cronaca\/maltempo-in-liguria-oltre-100-frane-e-almeno-200-evacuati-1.446933<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/genova.repubblica.it\/cronaca\/2014\/01\/19\/news\/maltempo_allerta_fino_alle_15_strade_riaperte_ma_ancora_frane-76346580\/#gallery-slider=76364928\">Republicca has probably the best gallery of images<\/a>, including this one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7805\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7805\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7805 \" alt=\"liguria\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-4.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-4.jpg 990w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/genova.repubblica.it\/cronaca\/2014\/01\/19\/news\/maltempo_allerta_fino_alle_15_strade_riaperte_ma_ancora_frane-76346580\/#gallery-slider=76364923<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"genova.repubblica.it\/cronaca\/2014\/01\/19\/news\/maltempo_allerta_fino_alle_15_strade_riaperte_ma_ancora_frane-76346580\/#gallery-slider=76364928\">La Stampa reports<\/a> on probably the most spectacular event, the derailing of an express train near between Andora (Savona) and Cervo (Imperia).\u00a0 This was astonishingly close to a very serious accident:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7803\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7803 \" alt=\"liguria\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/2014\/01\/17\/multimedia\/italia\/liguria-frana-sui-binari-deraglia-un-intercity-nvpBrPr32qJvwWcx2HmEgM\/pagina.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly not a simple case of debris on the tracks:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7804\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7804\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7804 \" alt=\"liguria\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-3.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-3.jpg 630w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/01\/14_01-Italy-3-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/2014\/01\/17\/multimedia\/italia\/liguria-frana-sui-binari-deraglia-un-intercity-nvpBrPr32qJvwWcx2HmEgM\/pagina.html<\/p><\/div>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>This landslide will be rather complex to repair.<\/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>Heavy rainfall in the last few days has triggered landslides in the Liguria region of Italy<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via 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