Kadavu Island this morning showing the closure of Jetty road following a landslide.
Landslides
"The causes of landslides are not a mystery to mankind. Layers of rock and soil such that rain running along a clay or rock layer can create a slippery surface for the weight of the layers above it is a common cause. A rock jumble from previous mountain building, broken or fractured rock easily dislodged. We have stated that the earthquakes man experiences between the periodic passages of Planet X can be considered aftershocks from the last passage, and this is true of landslides also. Mountain building rumples the landscape, so the land is not flat but has steep ravines and hill sides. Older mountain ranges are recognized for their rounded or smoothed appearance, because of frequent landslides distributing the rubble.
"As we approach another passage, another Pole Shift, the pace of landslides has picked up. Why would this be? Plates under pressure will put pressure on regions that contain rumpled hillsides and deep ravines, as these give more readily than strictly flat land, thus act as a weak link. In addition, due to the wobble, the weather has gotten more extreme, with drought and deluge increasing in extremes. Dry ground, suddenly flooded with rainwater needing to seek its level as runoff, will create internal water slides between the rock and soil layers that constitute the rumpled hillsides. Is there an early warning system that mankind could use? The trembles that soil about to slide emits could be detected, yes. These are not earthquakes, and have their own frequency. "
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Comment by Khan on May 5, 2018 at 4:04am
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12 killed in Myanmar landslide.
May 5, 2018
Yangon: At least 12 people died and eight others were injured due to a landslide in Myanmar's Hpakant mining region on Friday, the country's information ministry said.
The landslide occurred due to a collapse of a 60.9-meter high spoil tip near a mining worksite in Hway Khar village in the Kachin region, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Kazakhstan: Kolsai landslide was shot on video from a bird's eye view.
May 2, 2018
A video of the landslide appeared on the web, which came down near Lake Kolsai, shot from above.
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Recall, April 19, 2018 in the Kegensky area near the village of Sata there was a shift in the rock mass. According to the data provided by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, there is currently no movement of the body of the landslide. The road to the lake is closed. You can only reach him on foot.
It is known that the total length is 1700 meters, and the length is 920 meters.It is noted that the forces of the Emergency Situations Department of the Almaty region and the Kazselezaschita state institution of the CoES carry out round-the-clock monitoring. At the moment, more than 100 people work on the site of subsidence, as well as rescuers have 50 units of special equipment and 12 motor pumps.
Earlier, we reported that on April 19 a rock mass shift occurred in the Almaty region, as a result of the geomorphological phenomenon, 400 meters of the road from the village of Sata to Lake Kolsai collapsed, and also 4 power lines were cut off
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The cracking-sliding landslide at Caijiazhuang in China on 30th April.
May 1, 2018
Caijiazhuang village: a cracking-sliding landslide that has killed nine people
Yesterday I highlighted recently published research into the diurnal cycle and its impacts on cracking-sliding landslides on the Loess Plateau in China. Ironically, the same day an example of such a landslide occurred, on this occasion at Caijiazhuang village in Lishi District of Lyuliang City, in Shanxi Province. Xinhua has an unusually brief report on the landslide, which notes that:“Nine people have died in a landslide in north China’s Shanxi Province, local authorities said Monday. The landslide happened at around 4:57 a.m. Monday in Caijiazhuang village in Lishi District of Lyuliang City, the local publicity department said.”
The Li et al. (2018) research that I featured yesterday noted that these landslides occur preferentially between 10 pm and 5 am, so this landslide fits the pattern.
The Straits Times has a couple of images of the landslide:-
On the face of it this appears to meet the description of a cracking-sliding landslide, and the material appears to be loess or something similar. This image shows the landslide from a different perspective:-
.The presence of the chimneys suggests that this might have been a brick pit, which in turn might imply that undercutting of the slope might have been a factor in this instability, perhaps. There are certainly signs of instability in the adjacent slopes, though perhaps not on the scale of this landslide. Li et al. (2018) found that a very high proportion of these landslides were associated with slope disturbance of some type.
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Fiji: Vunisea road landslide.
May 1, 2018
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Canada: Landslide damages Westside Road.
May 1, 2018
Traffic is down to one lane in the 8500 block of Westside Road just north Ewing Landing after a second landside in the area.
Part of the road, on the west side of Okanagan Lake, caved in around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, but problems were identified on Monday.
Early Tuesday afternoon, Central Okanagan Emergency Operations also issued an evacuation alert for two properties below Westside Road at Ewing Landing because of “slope instability.”
Just before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday that evacuation alert was upgraded to an evacuation order.
Residents of 8645 N Westside Road and 8635 Westside Road are required to leave their properties.
The regional district said officials have also declared a local state of emergency covering the area along Westside Road from 5625 Westside Road to 10374 Westside Road “in response to the threat to property caused by slope instability.”
Neighbour Dietrich Goldammer said he saw growing cracks in the road before the landslide
There is a gaping hole in the roadside foliage where trees and bushes have crashed down.
Single lane alternating traffic is currently getting through.
It does not appear that any buildings were hit by the slide.
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Colombia: New landslide in Hidroituango project.
Apr 30, 2018
This is how the landslide in the works of Hidroituango
After a dam in the Cauca River was reported on the morning of Sunday in the area of Hidroituango, on Monday, around 2:00 p.m., a new emergency occurred in the hydroelectric project.
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Uganda: More than 2,000 people are currently homeless after fresh landslides hit about eight villages in Bududa Sub-county
Apr 30, 2018
The landslides, which were triggered by hours of heavy rains, swept away homes, gardens and livestock, prompting residents to flee the largely mountainous area. The most affected are Shiaza, Buhasiru, Buwaninda, Sholelo, Nafunane, Bunateme and Bukhalobo villages.
Residents said the mudslides occurred during the night as most of them were sleeping. Residents have appealed to government for aid. “We have no shelter, food or clothes because our crops have been buried,” said Prisca Nandudu, a resident.
Bududa District chairperson Wilson Watira urged government to come good on its promise to move the people to safer areas before more lives are lost.Bududa has been prone to land and mudslides for generations. The worst happened on March 1, 2010 when more than 300 people were buried in Nametsi.
There has been fierce resistance to a government effort to relocate the most vulnerable people in Bududa and neighbouring districts, with activists saying it would be even more disastrous for villagers to abandon their ancestral homes. Even those who were relocated to a camp for refugees after the 2010 landslides secretly returned to Bududa.
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China: Landslide kills 9 people in northern China.
Apr 30, 2018
BEIJING — A landslide in northern China trapped and killed nine people Monday morning beneath the falling earth.
More than a hundred firefighters, rescue workers and medical staff were sent to the scene in Shanxi province, the Luliang municipal government said on its official social media account.
The landslide hit shortly before 5 a.m., the post noted. Rescuers with four large machines and five ambulances looked for the people who had been trapped but the search concluded by early Monday afternoon.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the landslide or the identities of the deceased.
The mountainous Luliang prefecture has been hit by a number of landslides over the years, including one in 2008 that killed 19 people.
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lreland: Landslide prompts Killiney Beach evacuations.Apr 30, 2018landslide that swept down the hill in Killiney Beach on Saturday uprooted trees and toppled a power line, leaving a gaping hole in the ground.A local state of emergency has been declared and 12 properties have been given an evacuation order in the community, which is across the lake from Vernon.Power line down near Fintry has a section of Westside Rd down to one lane traffic. Twelve properties evacuated because of slope instability pic.twitter.com/wQ4VlMxWqg— Jules Knox (@Jules_Knox) April 29, 2018“The whole bank slid down, and we have homes below that. Those are the homes that are currently under evacuation,” said Wayne Carson, Central Okanagan West’s regional director.“It’s always frustrating to have to evacuate residents, whether it’s from flooding or fires or whatever the reason. To put somebody out of their home, it’s a huge responsibility,” he added.
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Kenya: Four family members killed in Murang’a landslide.
Apr 28, 2018
Four family members have died after a landslide buried their house at Inoi village in Murang’a County
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