{"id":8007,"date":"2014-02-14T08:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2014-02-14T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:08:01","slug":"xinjiang-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/02\/14\/xinjiang-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang earthquake: a good new image of the landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Xinjiang earthquake<\/a> (also known as the Kunlun Earthquake<\/a>) on 12th February is now known to have triggered at least some landslides.\u00a0 A fascinating image has been posted on Xinhua of some of the hillslopes affected by the earthquake:<\/p>\n

\"Xinjiang<\/a>

http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/photo\/2014-02\/14\/c_133115290.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

These appears to be shallow rockslides in weathered material – interestingly, most of the slips are on the gully flanks, but do not seem to have progressed to full failure.\u00a0 The more I look at this image the more landslides I see!\u00a0 I find some of the images from yesterday interesting too – for example, this image shows clear signs of old landslides – I have annotated the multiple tension cracks on one of these landslides:<\/p>\n

\"Xinjiang<\/a>

http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/photo\/2014-02\/13\/c_133113060_10.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

The only obvious feature that could be an earthquake induced landslide is highlighted with an arrow (although I am not sure that even this is actually a landslide).\u00a0 There is another possible small slide in the complex further along the valley.\u00a0 If this earthquake was not large enough to reactivate these landslides, I wonder what the original trigger was.<\/p>\n

The best source of information about this event, and other earthquakes in this area, is the Tibet Earthquake twitter account: @aam868<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another image has emerged of landslides triggered by the Xinjiang earthquake yesterday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,23,469,136],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-rockslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","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=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}