{"id":91,"date":"2010-06-15T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/15\/the-strange-similarity-between-the-attabad-and-the-landslide-in-oliver\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:26","slug":"the-strange-similarity-between-the-attabad-and-the-landslide-in-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/15\/the-strange-similarity-between-the-attabad-and-the-landslide-in-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange similarity between the Attabad and the landslide in Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted in both the ongoing situation at Attabad (and I am glad to say that it now seems likely that the reported landslide at Shimshal was a false alarm) and the mud and debris flow at Oliver in Canada.&nbsp; It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2010\/06\/14\/bc-mudslide-causes-oliver.html%20\">now reported<\/a> that the Oliver slide was caused by the failure of an embankment retaining a small irrigation lake.&nbsp; If that is the case then I assume that the lake is this one:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Oliver-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Oliver-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The damage, shown below in an image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/\">Vancouver Sun<\/a>, does serve to demonstrate the destructive potential of lake collapses, and thus our ongoing concerns about Attabad:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Vancouver-sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Vancouver-sun.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Has anyone seen any decent images of the path that the flow took between the lake and the valley floor?<\/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>Yesterday I posted in both the ongoing situation at Attabad (and I am glad to say that it now seems likely that the reported landslide at Shimshal was a false alarm) and the mud and debris flow at Oliver in Canada.&nbsp; It is now reported that the Oliver slide was caused by the failure of an embankment retaining a small irrigation lake.&nbsp; If that is the case then I assume &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":[967,4,76],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attabad","tag-canada","tag-dam-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}