{"id":98,"date":"2010-06-07T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/07\/latest-image-of-the-spillway-at-attabad\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:27","slug":"latest-image-of-the-spillway-at-attabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/07\/latest-image-of-the-spillway-at-attabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest image of the spillway at Attabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful people at Focus have provided an image of the state of the spillway at Attabad that is very instructive.&nbsp; This was taken today:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-spillway-7th-June.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-spillway-7th-June.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>The current state of play is I think as follows.&nbsp; Flow appears to be constrained by two blockages but, as a commenter has noted, one is a rock spur out of the channel.&nbsp; The blockage appears to have formed a small waterfall \/ rapid.&nbsp; Downstream of the blockage the channel has widened dramatically &#8211; and indeed a section of the track has now been lost.<\/p>\n<p>To me this suggests that the crisis may be far from being over.&nbsp; In particular, the loss of this barrier could cause a rapid increase in flow rate that could be highly erosive.&nbsp; It is however important to stress that interpreting the state of play from photos is difficult.<\/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>The wonderful people at Focus have provided an image of the state of the spillway at Attabad that is very instructive.&nbsp; This was taken today: The current state of play is I think as follows.&nbsp; Flow appears to be constrained by two blockages but, as a commenter has noted, one is a rock spur out of the channel.&nbsp; The blockage appears to have formed a small waterfall \/ rapid.&nbsp; Downstream &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-98","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}