{"id":9900,"date":"2014-06-09T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=9900"},"modified":"2014-06-09T07:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T07:20:36","slug":"litochovice-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/06\/09\/litochovice-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Litochovice: an interesting highway landslide in the Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Litochovice landslide<\/h5>\n

The Litochovice landslide occurred on 7th June 2013 in the Czech Republic.\u00a0 Until yesterday I hadn’t heard of this landslide, even though it is both large and interesting.\u00a0 GIM International<\/a>, who have been undertaking a project to map the landslide using UAVs, have released this oblique aerial shot of the site:<\/p>\n

\"Litochovice\"<\/a>

GIM International<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

The very obvious road at the foot of the slope (and now buried for a substantial section) is the under-construction D8 motorway linking Prague with Saxony in Germany.\u00a0 In this section the road is passing through the Czech Central Mountains, which are known to be landslide-prone.\u00a0 The road appears to be traversing a slope with a cutting on the upslope side of the highway – a working hypothesis might be that it has cut through the toe of a pre-existing landslide, which then destabilised in heavy rainfall.\u00a0 Note the roads across the surface of the displaced mass post-date the landslide (see images below).<\/p>\n

The work undertaken by GIM International<\/a> appears to be to map the landslide in detail, and they have made this youtube video of their GIS model of the\u00a0Litochovice landslide available<\/a>:<\/p>\n