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The Lost City wavers between character-driven drama
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With his latest novel Ravelstein, Saul Bellow proves that even in his ninth decade, he can pin a character to the page more vividly, and more permanently, than just about anybody on the planet. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: his novella The Actual was bursting at the seams with wit, plot and the intellectual equivalent of high fibre. Still, Bellow's readers wondered if he would ever pull another full-sized novel from his hat. Well, he has.
Character is very much the issue in Ravelstein, whose eponymous subject is a thinly disguised version of Bellow's boon companion, the late Allan Bloom. Like Bloom, Abe Ravelstein has spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, fighting a rearguard action against the creeping boobism and vulgarity of American life. What's more, he's written a surprise bestseller (a ringer, of course, for The Closing of the American Mind), which has made him into a millionaire. And finally, he's dying--has died from an AIDS-related illness, in fact, six years before the opening of the novel. What we're reading, then, is a faux-memoir by his best friend and anointed Boswell, a Bellovian body-double named Chick:
Ravelstein was willing to lay it all out for me. Now why did he bother to tell me such things, this large Jewish man from Dayton, Ohio? Because it very urgently needed to be said. He was HIV-positive, he was dying of complications from it. Weakened, he became the host of an endless list of infections. Still, he insisted on telling me over and over again what love was--the neediness, the awareness of incompleteness, the longing for wholeness, and how the pains of Eros were joined to the most ecstatic pleasures.Ravelstein is a little thin in the plot department--or more accurately, it has an anti-plot, that consists of Chick's inability to write his memoir. But seldom has a case of writer's block been so supremely productive. The narrator dredges up anecdote after anecdote about his subject, assembling a composite portrait: "In approaching a man like Ravelstein, a piecemeal method is perhaps best." We see this very worldly philosopher teaching, kvetching, eating, drinking and dying, the last in melancholic increments. His death, and Chick's own brush with what Henry James called "the distinguished thing," give much of the novel a kind of black-crepe coloration. But fortunately, Bellow shares Ravelstein's "Nietzschean view, favourable to comedy and bandstands," and there can't be many eulogies as funny as this one.
As always, the author is lavish with physical detail, bringing not only his star but a large gallery of minor players to rude and resounding life ("Rahkmiel was a non-benevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed"). His sympathies are also stretched in some interesting directions by his homosexual protagonist. Bellow hasn't, to be sure, transformed himself into an affirmative-action novelist. But his famously capacious view of human nature has been enriched by this additional wrinkle: "In art you become familiar with due process. You can't simply write people off or send them to hell." A world-class portrait, a piercing intimation of mortality, Ravelstein is truly that other distinguished thing: a great novel. --James Marcus
The magic still sparks and flashes on the page...Masterful in its thoroughness and intricacy...the prose rings as clearly as a meditation bell. Roland Merullo, The Philadelphia Inquirer (front-page review)
This book rings with laughter and joy....Ravelstein is an extraordinary character...it is hard not to feel privileged at being allowed a glimpse into a human connection as intimate and rewarding as this one. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World (front-page review)
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In the novel, Abe Ravelstein is based upon Allan Bloom, a professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago and a student of Leo Strauss (called Davorr in the book). Professor Bloom became wealthy when his 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind" became an unexpected best-seller. Bloom's book stresses the importance of philosophy and the humanities, particularly the philosophy of Plato, if education is to meet its function of forming thoughtful, passionate, and autonomous persons. He sharply criticized higher education in the United States, together with most of pop culture, for its failure to acknowledge or to pursue these goals. Bloom grew up in a Jewish family in the midwest.
Like Bloom, Saul Bellow grew up in a Jewish family in the midwest. Unlike Bloom, recognition came to Bellow relatively early in his career as a novelist. Bellow received the Nobel Prize in 1976. He has won three National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize.
The two men became fast friends relatively late in life and "Ravelstein" (2000) is a record of their friendship written by Bellow (born 1915) in his mid-80s. A painter with words, Bellow in a short space gives the reader an unforgettable picture of Ravelstein. The book disclaims an attempt to deal with Ravelstein's thought. But I think Bellow captures a great deal of it when he emphasizes how students must learn to leave home and the familiar and try to think for themselves.Read more ›
I quickly realized Ravelstein must have been Allan Bloom, made famous for his Closing of the American Mind, to which Bellow penned the preface. Ravelstein recounts the friendship between Bellow and Bloom (Chick and Ravelstein) as professors during what might be called their sundowner years -Ravelstein is dying and asks Chick to write his memoir, which Chick does after his own near-death experience.
The novel is a good one. I appreciated the descriptions of Raveltsein's brilliance and excesses and the magnetism he had over his students and colleagues. I also liked the references to classical learning (Bloom translated The Republic during the `60s, I think) and ruminations about Jewishness and what that means. There are a few jokes and surprising cultural references, and anecdotes and descriptions are quite entertaining. The book is well-written; there is hardly a sentence that is not thoughtfully crafted, and the story carries you along, for the most part. I thought it lagged a bit near the end (when it shifts from Ravelstein to Chick, or Bloom to Bellow) and that it was a little dry in places, but then it was meant as a fairly serious book and it was published when Bellow was 85. I liked the novel enough to want to come back to Bellow in the future, which means, for me, Ravelstein did what it was supposed to.
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Evidently, 'Ravelstein' is based on Allan Bloom who wrote in the late 80s the controversial 'The Closing of the American Mind'. "We live in a thought-world, and the thinking has gone very bad indeed.'' Wrote Saul Bellow, in his foreword to Allan Bloom's controversial book some 13 years ago.
It appears that 'Ravelstein' is rather fragmented frames of Bellow's memory of Alan Bloom. Some readers may find it difficult to understand the meaning of this book. I'm sure the Gay community will label it as an anti-gay novel. I am not sure whether that was Bellow's intention. Does he want us to get deeper insights into the darkness of human nature?
One of the most important question about Bellow's 'Ravelstein' is the role of a writer and his ability to pass or not to pass judgements on moral issues or the question of mortality. In this novel Bellow passes a judgement about Ravelstein's "sex habits" in fact, as he calls "reckless sex habits" which I'm sure will not be acceptable to the gay community around the world.
In the novel, Ravelstein questions, "With what, in this modern day democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?" This is indeed a difficult question to answer.Read more ›
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i love Saul Bellow, not only for the atmospheric sense of place, his lifelong dedication to learning and understanding, but the sheer beauty of his sensitivity to language and... Read morePublished on 13 May 2011 by Ms. Linda Weir
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Berroco Portfolio Vol. 2
Today, I fell in love all over again. It wasn't love at first sight, because I vaguely remember glancing at it a few months ago during our rep meeting, and we've had it in the shop for an entire month. But sometimes the best loves are the ones where you discover that in fact, they've been there all along. That is the case for me with the new pattern book from Berroco, their beautiful Portfolio Vol. 2. This latest offering from the Berroco Design Team is so, so beautiful, and it uses yarns from the Vintage and Ultra Alpaca families.
Have you heard of the Rule of Three when it comes to patterns? If you like three or more patterns in a pattern booklet, it's a worthwhile investment. Three is the magic number, but this book has nine patterns — nine! — that make me want to cast on immediately. The thing that really sealed the deal was that one of these patterns was already on my to-knit list, I just hadn't realized that Portfolio Vol. 2 was the source. Obviously, it was meant to be. Let me show you some of my favorites:
The Teeter Totter Shawl by Julia Farwell-Clay is a fun riot of color. Knit in Ultra Alpaca Fine, it will keep me warm despite arctic air conditioning, but it won't ever be too heavy. I've been wanting to dabble in intarsia, and the color options are endless (though I do love the contrast between warm and cool color families).
This simple, elegant item by Elizabeth Smith is called the Brooklin Vest, and would be a quick knit in Vintage Chunky (and machine washable, too!). Knit seamlessly from side-to-side, it features a checkerboard texture on the back for a little visual interest. The Brooklin Vest is the perfect item to dress up my jeans-and-long-sleeve-tee wardrobe for fall.
Speaking of cooler weather, this sweet accessory is called the Marguerite Hat. Designed by Beatrice Perron Dahlen, you already know it's going to be soft, because it's knit in Ultra Alpaca. I don't know if I would do mine with a white background — maybe I would choose a fun magenta with eggplant colorwork, or perhaps a bright blue-green with deep teal colorwork… It would be so warm and cozy!
I've saved the best for last. This is my absolute favorite, the Addilyn Capelet by Elizabeth Smith. It's designed for Ultra Alpaca Chunky Tonal, which has soft variations in color that add a beautiful depth to the fabric. And I just adore those statement buttons, and the way you can fold down the collar if you want to wear it unbuttoned. This is the item that was already on my to-knit list, thanks to our Berroco rep, Andra. She's always a few steps ahead of us, fashion-wise, and she called the poncho trend before it was even a glimmer on our horizon. (You were right, Andra!) In fact, Andra was so far ahead that she had already put her own twist on the pattern: she switched the yarn to North Star on size 11 needles. Look how wonderful it is:
I don't think I can choose between the two yarns. I think I'll have to knit both. Berroco really knocked it out of the park with their Portfolio Vol. 2. Stop by the store to check it out — it's really stunning.
A Most Noble Quest
Or something like that, anyway.
It has been a long time goal of mine to knit or crochet a swatch (at the very least) of every feltable yarn we carry in the store and see how well I can felt it by hand. So far I've gotten ahold of Cascade 220, Cascade 220 Fingering, Bartlett, Homestead Tweed, and Moonshine. So far all of them — with the exception of the fingering weight –had to be aggressively put through my washing machine and didn't take too well to hand felting. In fact, as a note to any of you who might be interested in felting with the Homestead Tweed, it does tend to lose some of the dye in the process (or at least, the burgundy color that I used did). Cascade 220 Fingering did hand felt, but it took a long time and wore out my hands pretty quickly.
I've also felted with Malabrigo Worsted and Rasta, but only for needle felting. Now, before you faint or shout "blasphemy!" , remember the mini paintings we felted at the store for the Christmas tree auction?
Yup! Malabrigo.
There was one other yarn that I've been wet felting by hand that surprised me, and that's the one I wanted to focus on today: Quince&Co. In particular, Chickadee.
Oh my goodness. Ooooh, my goodness. When knit on a US #2 instead of the #3-#5 that it recommends, this stuff felts like a dream! With very little time, effort, and a lot of soap I was able to get these results.
I'm sure if I had put in some more time, I'd be able to get it completely felted so the impressions of the stitches no longer remained, but this was a satisfying first attempt. Now, does it needle felt well (using a large gauged needle because this is already a densely felted object)?
Yes, it does! Do I needle felt letters with roving well? No, no not at all. I think I'll be sticking to the Malabrigo for that.
Yarn School: Inside Pull vs Outside Pull Ball
A ball of yarn is one very long piece of string with two ends. One inside, buried down deep in the middle, and one wrapped around the outside. You can start using the yarn from either end, pulling from either the inside or the outside. I know it's going to come as a shock to you, but I have opinions about this.
You may have heard me say it, or you may have learned it elsewhere, but for those of you who don't know, yarn is only held together by the twist. If it were not twisted, it would be just roving and would fall apart with even gentle tugging. The way a quantity of yarn is lumped together is called the put up. Go here for a great graphic that explains more about put up. Every time you change the put up, depending on which way you wind it, you either add or subtract twist. Going from the reeling machines into cones at the factory, going from cones to hanks in the warehouse, or going from hank to ball in the shop or at home, adds or subtracts twist. And so does knitting or crocheting.
I have a really hard time working with single ply yarn because wrapping the yarn around my needle or hook in a counter clockwise motion, as is customary here in the western world, takes away the twist and makes my yarn begin to fall apart. Working from the outside end of a ball of yarn will add twist if the yarn comes off in a counter clockwise motion, and add twist if the yarn comes off the ball in a clockwise motion. Either way, adding or subtracting twist can affect your gauge.
Working from the end in the middle of the ball will preserve the twist. It also allows your yarn to sit still and not roll around. It may be becoming clear what my opinion is. I like the center pull put up. To address the pros and cons, though, there are a number of accessories you can use to make which ever end you want to work with, work for you.
If want to use the inside pull out up, but you're worried about the center of the ball collapsing, a yarn bra will be your best friend. You can read more about yarn bras here in Kate's review guest blog. The gentle pressure of the yarn bra holds everything together and you can knot or crochet along in the confidence that nothing is going to fall apart on either end.
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FLOYD INGRAM: A hint of fall and change
We have 40-plus trees at my house and as I sat on the porch Saturday morning I couldn't look out across the yard without watching a leaf slowly spin to the ground.
It's late September and while it isn't fall just yet, it is the season to check the goals and direction for this year. Autumn is a season to ponder the change the year has brought and look at adjusting to the days ahead.
The economy continues to jerk and while sales have slowed, most of us are looking forward to a strong holiday season. The rain has helped most farmers and fall gardeners. Hunting season has just gotten started.
It is so easy to get busy making hay during the long days of summer that we forget to look ahead and plan for what's down the road.
Fall Flywheel Festival
The 32 Annual Mississippi Valley Fall Flywheel Festival was held this past weekend.
This festival is perfectly timed with the harvest season.
Old tractors, old ways and old men were on display in Joe Brigance Park. There were bounce houses, food and crafts and the merry go round for the younger set.
Plans now begin for the Spring show. Let's get behind our Flywheel Festival and make Houston proud.
Football Friday
The Toppers are having a tough go of it this fall.
I think last year's stellar season has ruined a few of us. We got a taste of success and that sweetness still lingers.
I never tell a coach that winning isn't everything during the season. Their careers hinge on a winning record. I can't imagine putting my livelihood in the hands of a teenager every Friday night in the fall.
And let me be the first to say I hate losing, too.
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Let me point out the season is far from over. Division play starts Friday night and your Toppers need you now more than ever.
We'll see you at the game.
Change always comes
I once had a Mississippi mayor tell me "Things either get better or they get worse. And they only get better if we all work to make it better."
Pushing a community in a given direction is not an easy task.
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I think we all agree Houston is a great place to live. But it's only that way because people worked very hard and made some very tough decisions years ago.
Fall is a season of change. Let's enjoy today and plan carefully for seasons ahead.
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All of these posters with solo (male) silhouettes against an imposing backdrop. Will cinema ever tire of one man shows, Our Hero against the world. They'll even sell ensemble films that way -- everyone knows that Star Trek Into Darkness will be an ensemble picture as all Star Treks are but you'd think Captain Kirk* was the sole survivor of a futuristic apocalypse by the looks of this.
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You may have followed the various murmurings on Twitter and beyond about a possible algorithm update from Google. Certainly the data seemed to suggest that something was happening.
It was rumoured to be the much anticipated Penguin 4.0 update, but it turns out that there has been a new roll-out of Panda, and it's a biggie.
This time around Google has made Panda part of its core ranking algorithm, meaning that it will be paying more attention to site quality signals than ever before.
Google confirmed the update to Jennifer Slegg over at The SEM Post.
Panda is an algorithm that's applied to sites overall and has become one of our core ranking signals. It measures the quality of a site, which you can read more about in our guidelines. Panda allows Google to take quality into account and adjust ranking accordingly.
This seems straight-forward, though Google's Gary Illyes has sown some confusion with this reponse to a question on Twitter from Pete Myers of Moz.
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A few takeaways:
Websites affected by Panda can still rank, if they have pages of outstanding quality:
"The Panda algorithm may continue to show such a site for more specific and highly-relevant queries, but its visibility will be reduced for queries where the site owner's benefit is disproportionate to the user's benefit."
If you're worried Panda then you need to compare and contrast:
"If you believe your site is affected by the Panda algorithm, in Search Console's Search Analytics feature you can identify the queries which lead to pages that provide overly vague information, or don't seem to satisfy the user need for a query."
You need to stop thinking about the volume of visits, and focus on being useful:
"At the end of the day, content owners shouldn't ask how many visitors they had on a specific day, but rather how many visitors they helped."
Build some new paths, rather than trying to cover up your tracks:
"Instead of deleting those pages, your goal should be to create pages that don't fall in that category: pages that provide unique value for your users who would trust your site in the future when they see it in the results."
This puts to bed a lot of the chatter about Penguin 4.0, but proves the effectiveness of a bunch of SEO tools, which did a good job of detecting activity.
I'd seen a bunch of comments the week after Christmas, with various people suggesting that they had seen some ranking changes. But there was nothing definitive.
Dawn Anderson then raised a flag late last week, pointing to data from Algoroo, which showed a lot of dramatic movement.
More perspective on SERPs flux. Bonkers. Maybe multiple things going on by looks of it – just my thoughts tho ;) pic.twitter.com/bLl4pwrDCR
— Dawn Anderson (@dawnieando) January 10, 2016
Other SEO experts started to speculate. Dan Petrovic said that it looked like "a multi-purpose update", and one that was happening across the world.
Barry Schwartz collated a bunch of other comments from the community and some more screenshots and data, from the likes of Mozcast.
UPDATE: Google's Gary Illyes has confirmed that Panda is part of the core algorithm, but that this part of it hasn't been updated.
@methode @jenstar @iqseo Hey Gary – 'not' suggests you *have* updated other animals? Or did you mean 'nor'?
— Chris Lake (@lakey) January 13, 2016
In addition, while some sites may have experienced fluctuations recently, these have nothing to do with Panda.
Related reading
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The EU referendum has delivered a nice traffic boost for the UK's newspaper websites, according to ABC figures released this week.
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Landslides from the M=6.1 earthquake in the Atacama Desert on 25th July
Landslides from the M=6.1 earthquake in the Atacama Desert on 25th July
On Monday a M=6.1 earthquake occurred in the Atacama Desert, 53 km to the north of the town of Diego de Almagro in Chile. This was not a very large earthquake, and it occurred at 71.5 km depth according to the USGS, meaning that the impact was low. It is likely to have generated comparatively low intensity shaking over a large area.
On Twitter, a series of images were posted of the impact of the earthquake in El Salvador, a mining town located in the Atacama desert about 100 km from the epicentre of the earthquake. These show large plumes of dust being generated in the mountains around the town:
Clearly there was significant landslide activity in this earthquake, although it is likely that the slides will mostly have been small and localised. We know little about landslide activity during earthquakes in very arid conditions, so this is a technically interesting event. The images suggest that the effects might have been similar to those from the 2010 Sierra Cucapah earthquake in Baja California, Mexico, which was captured on a youtube video that I posted at the time. Working with colleagues at Durham, most notably John Barlow (who is now at the University of Sussex), we used satellite imagery to investigate at these landslides. This work was published about 18 months ago (Barlow et al. 2014), and I posted a commentary about the paper at the time. In that case we found that large numbers of comparatively small landslides were able to generate a large amount of dust.
Barlow, J., Barisin, I., Rosser, N., Petley, D., Densmore, A. and Wright, T. 2014. Seismically-induced mass movements and volumetric fluxes resulting from the 2010 Mw = 7.2 earthquake in the Sierra Cucapah, Mexico, Geomorphology, 230, 138-145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.11.012.
25 July 2016
Gangotri and China: three fascinating new landslide videos
Gangotri – a very nice rockslide video from India
As Asia reels under extraordinary rainfall under strong monsoon conditions, three new, interesting landslide videos have been posted on Youtube. The first shows a rather elegant rockslide on the highway to Gangotri in Uttarakhand in northern India:
This is a classic of its type – a translational rockslide on a joint system dipping out of the slope. It is likely that trimming of the slope to create the road has removed the natural buttress at the toe of the slide, allowing slip to occur on the existing weakness when pore pressures are high.
Note also the very large amounts of dust generated by the landslide.
A spectacular landslide from China
This video first appeared on Liveleak, and has now migrated to Youtube as well. The landslide is from a highway in China, but no other details are available:-
The magnitude of the landslide is very large. Note that both section of the landslide occurred on slopes that have been cut to create the road bench, and then reinforced to provide stability:-
The aftermath of a landslide in China
And finally, CCTV has now posted a very nice video of the aftermath of the widely circulated video of a landslide destroying houses in a rural village in Hunan Province:
This is the original video:
In this case there is a railway line running across the slope – the failure appears to have occurred at the tunnel portal:
It's hard to know whether earthworks for the line played a role in the landslide, but it seems like a prime candidate:
These three landslides all rather nicely illustrate the ways on which poor slope management is exacerbating landslide problems in upland areas of Asia.
22 July 2016
The University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield
It is with great excitement that I can announce this morning that, as from 1st November 2016, I will be moving to take up the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Sheffield. The University has formally put out a press release with this news this morning. A Pro-Vice-Chancellor is the equivalent of a Vice-President in the US system. I will help to provide strategic leadership in research across the university, and will lead on all innovation (knowledge transfer, enterprise, consultancy, business generation, etc) as well. It is a very exciting step for me.
Sheffield is a very strong, research-led Russell Group (the UK equivalent of the Ivy League) university. It's in the World top 100 institutions, with over 27,000 students and a research income of over £140 million. It has a fabulous reputation for the quality of the student experience – it came third out of 117 institutions in the 2016 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey for example.
Of course, this means that with great sadness I will leave the University of East Anglia on 31st October. I will do so with real sorrow – I've loved my time at UEA. It's a great university, one that also focuses on the student experience (UEA came 7th in the same survey), and I have had the honour and privilege to work with some amazing people. UEA is a university that has extraordinary strength, amazing staff and an astonishing can-do attitude. Its location in the East of England means that it will play a fundamental role in the development of a gorgeous part of the UK. Until I moved to Norwich I had not appreciated what an amazing city it is. Being here has been absolutely instrumental to my career, and I have loved every minute of it. The university has a tremendous future ahead of it, and I shall watch with great interest as the university develops.
But I see amazing opportunities in Sheffield, and I cannot wait to play a part in the development of that wonderful university. It is an institution that is firmly rooted in its city and region, which will play a massive role in helping Britain to find a new path in the wake of the Brexit result. I feel deeply honoured to have been asked to join the University of Sheffield, and am hugely looking forward to working with colleagues and students across the institution.
19 July 2016
The Aranayake landslide disaster in Sri Lanka – a JICA report
The Aranayake landslide disaster in Sri Lanka
JICA has now posted a report online (NB it's a PDF) providing the initial results of an investigation of the May 2016 Aranayake landslide disaster in Sri Lanka, which killed 127 people.
This is a complex landslide – the image below from the report provides the best overview of the whole of the landslide, from the small failure at the crown to the debris flow at the toe:
This this image shows the complex translational component of the landslide. The report points out the unusual width of the landslide, which was not evident in most of the images at the time:
I think there are two really revealing aspects to this report. First, it provides a detailed aerial image of the very crown of the landslide:
Whilst it might on first inspection be thought that this small failure induced the overall collapse, this strange feature in the very crown of the landslide may well be a secondary failure, judging by the debris on the slope below. However, I still believe that the landslide was initiated by a failure in the crown area (but possibly over a larger area than shown above). It is interesting that the primary forest appears to have been removed in the areas on the flanks of the landslide shown in this image. This might provide an explanation for why this first failure developed.
Second, the report provides details of the settlements that were destroyed by the landslide:
An interesting question is whether this specific landslide could have been anticipated. This is the outline of the landslide superimposed onto a slope angle map:
It is probably fair to say that the specifics of this landslide could not have been identified in advance. This type of very complex, cascading failure is always going to be exceptionally hard to anticipate. However, that this type of landslide will occur in general in exceptionally heavy rainfall in the mountains of Sri Lanka can be anticipated. The houses located in the lower channel of the landslide, which is clearly identifiable in the image above, were probably at an unacceptably high level of risk from the perspective of landslide hazards.
Thanks to Kenichi Handa of JICA for highlighting this report to me, and for the most interesting discussion.
18 July 2016
Monsoon 2016: Nepal reels under the effects of multiple landslides
Monsoon 2016
In the aftermath of the May 2015 earthquake we have been worried that the first really intensive period of rainfall would lead to significant landslide problems in Nepal. Unfortunately, as Monsoon 2016 really gets into gear this scenario is playing out. Northern areas of Nepal are being affected by large amounts of rainfall. The landslides are dominating the news in Nepal – for example this is the front page of the Himalayan Times this morning:-
This is reporting the ongoing problems in the catchment of the Bhote Kosi following the landslide dam break flood of last week. Whilst the damage and disruption to this area is undoubtedly extreme, I am deeply concerned by this report of plans to bulldoze a new, 26 km long track to create an alternative alignment to Tatopani:-
The Divisional Road Office (DRO) has started work to open a 26-kilometre alternative track to connect Barhabise with Tatopani in Sindhupalchok district after a flashflood last week destroyed much of the road. The under-construction Middle Bhotekoshi Hydropower Project is providing financial assistance to open the road from Chaku to Khohra. The DRO has started construction in the remaining section of the road up to Tatopani. The project has already opened the alternative way from Chaku. The project is using three excavators at the site. Chief of the 102 megawatt project Sunil Kumar Lama said landslides continue to occur in Khohra and other areas. Senior civil engineer Sanjay Sapkota said construction works will be completed in a week though the river is still eroding sections of the Araniko Highway.
These low tech roads are both environmentally catastrophic and exceptionally hazard prone. This is an area that basically consists of quasi-stable landslide deposits, and even the existing road is very landslide-prone. In the medium term the opening of a new road is likely to make the problem far worse.
Meanwhile, other catchments are also showing distinct problems. The Mahakali River is reported to be very high and is actively eroding its banks:-
A flood in Mahakali River has started eroding the embankment at Bhimdatta Municipality-11 in Kanchan-pur district. On Sunday, the river eroded the levee that was constructed near Bhujela last year. Technicians from the People's Embankment Programme (PEP), Kanchanpur said the flood caused by incessant rains in the hilly areas of the far-western region started eroding the banks on Saturday night. PEP chief Bhilananda Yadav said the embankment would be destroyed if the dike is swept away. "We are going to protect the embankment with gabions," he said. Shankar Chhetri of Bhujela said they have been alerted against the river flooding their settlement.
Perhaps most worrying is the situation on the Tamor River, which has been partially blocked by a landslide. News yesterday was that the water level is rising:
Water level in landslide-dammed lake in Tamor River in Sawadin, Taplejung, has increased, leaving the downstream settlement at risk. A fresh rockfall blocked water flow in the river. Pawan Shrestha, a resident of nearby Mitlung Bazaar, told the Post over the phone that the water level in the debris-dammed lake gradually increased on Saturday.
The Kathmandu Post published an image last week of the landslide and lake from the upstream side:
17 July 2016
Glacier Bay Landslide in Alaska: a satellite image and new videos
Glacier Bay Landslide in Alaska
Slowly more information is emerging about the very large Glacier Bay landslide in Alaska, upon which I have previously blogged. Perhaps most importantly. the landslide has now been imaged by the ESA Sentinel-2 satellite. The image was tweeted by @RemotePixel on 14th July, with the image having been collected on 11th July 2016:
It is interesting to see how little this landslide spread laterally, especially on the right side of the track (the left side is clearly constrained by the topography).
In addition, there are now a couple of videos on Youtube showing aerial images of the landslide. This one, by Jillian Rodgers of KHNS Radio, is marred by irritating music, but gives a pretty good impression of the landslide:
It includes two really good shots of the landslide source / scar area:
Paul Swanstrom, the pilot who found the landslide in the first place, has also posted a short video of the crown of the landslide:
This serves to rather beautifully show the immense fall height of this landslide. Both videos also demonstrate clearly that there is still a huge amount of rockfall activity occurring on the landslide scar, and the first video suggests that a new scree deposit is accumulating on the landslide body.
16 July 2016
Ya'an City, Sichuan: a video of a very near miss
Ya'an City, Sichuan: a video of a very near miss
CCTV has published on Youtube a pretty dramatic video of a very near miss for a landslide in Ya'an City in Sichuan Province, China. The accompanying text says:
Last Friday evening, when a bus with 42 passengers was driving at 318 National Road in Ya'an city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the 59-year-old driver noticed rocks sliding down from the mountain. He immediately pressed his brakes and reversed about 10 meters. The mountain collapsed in a minute and buried the place. But thankfully, the driver was quick enough to avert any untowardly incident.
The video is quite exciting. The consequences should the bus have been in the wrong place are clear:
Some images of the landslide appear to show a car caught up in the debris:
Fortunately this looks to have been survivable for the occupants. China Daily has more information about the landslide:
Huang Guiquan has been a driver all his life. He attributed his swift thinking to his long driving experience and familiarity with the road. "It is important for a driver to be observant of the environment all around rather than just staring at the road ahead," he said. It was raining. He decided to stop the bus when he saw some stones falling down the mountain slope. "Trees swayed on the mountainside, but there was no wind at that moment. I thought that it must be the mountain itself that was shaking so I backed up the bus," he said. The road is high on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and prone to snow in winter and landslides in summer. Huang is familiar with the road conditions on all his regular routes. "I am particularly careful when driving through the sections with sharp turns, steep slopes or frequent landslides," he said. "It is always better to stop than rush when in danger."
14 July 2016
Bhote Kosi, Nepal: serious damage after the failure of a landslide dam in Tibet
Bhote Kosi, Nepal
The Bhote Kosi valley, to the north of Kathmandu, was one of the areas most seriously affected by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Much of the damage was caused by landslides, which occurred on many slopes. Fortunately the comparatively benign 2015 monsoon season did not exacerbate the problems as much as had been feared, but the consequences of the next period of intense rainfall always looked grim. This is a section of the valley for example:
Apart from the local population, this valley is important as it is the alignment of the Arniko Highway, which is one of only two links between Nepal and Tibet, and thus China.
The 2016 monsoon has arrived with a bang, bringing very heavy rainfall. Last week a very large flood swept down the Bhote Kosi, with devastating effects. This was almost certainly a landslide dam break flood from a blockage in the river in Tibet, and it must have been large. However, as yet the location is unclear. The Nepal media has various reports of the impact of the flood – the Himalayan Times for example reported that:
The deadly earthquake of last year had devastated Liping and Tatopani Bazaar of Sindhupalchowk. Before these places could recover, flood in the Bhote Koshi River has left these towns so battered that reconstruction seems impossible. Of the 200 houses in Tatopani and Liping bazaars, the Bhote Koshi flood has washed away 67 houses till today noon, police said.
The best image of the aftermath of the flood is on the Himalayan Times website:
It is clear that much of the damage has been caused by erosion of the toe of slopes by the flood, and subsequent slope failures. There is also a good gallery of images here. But by far the best illustration of the damage is in this Youtube video, even though it is not in English. The journalist has followed the line of the highway up to Kodari. The damage to this very important road is startling:
Sadly this may not be the end of the problems. Dinanath Bhandari of Practical Action tweeted this image of forecast 24 hour accumulated rainfall in Nepal:
This is the forecast for two days time. Whilst the heaviest rain is forecast to fall in the south, large parts of Nepal may get heavy precipitation.
10 July 2016
Nagasaki, Uttarakhand and Pakistan: three new landslide videos
A small number of new landslide videos have emerged on Youtube in the last few weeks:
A debris flow in Pakistan
This very cool debris flow video was published on 17th June. No details are provided:
A road slope failure in Uttarakhand, India
This collapse event apparently happened at Nainital in Uttarakhand in India. It was posted on 5th July 2016:
A house collapse as a result of undercutting in Nagasaki, Japan
This one happened in Japan earlier this month. It appears that a retaining wall below the building has failed, undermining the foundations:
3 July 2016
Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche: A massive new landslide in Alaska on Tuesday
Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche: A massive new rock landslide
The media in Alaska is reporting a find by a local pilot, Paul Swanstrom of Mountain Flying Service, of a huge new landslide, the Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche, which occurred in Alaska on Tuesday. This is yet another enormous event in this area of North America – this is an image that he took of the landslide, which is posted on his company Facebook Page:
Paul estimates that the runout of the landslide is about 6 miles (i.e. about 10 km). In a KHNS Radio article about the landslide, Colin Stark of Colombia University estimates that the volume is about 150 million tonnes, presumably based upon an initial analysis of the seismic catalogue. The landslide appears to be recorded in the Alaska Earthquake Center catalogue as a M=2.9 event on 23rd June 2016 at 08:20 local time:
The landslide appears to be a very deep-seated, ridge crest to slope toe failure of unusually large proportions:
The landslide appears to have generated a highly mobile, broad and long landslide deposit on a comparatively low angled slope, probably consistent with flow of debris over an ice bed. The landslide has developed complex structures at the toe, probably associated with the final creeping stage of movement:
This is not an area with particularly good Google Earth imagery, but I think that this is the slope that failed:
The crest of the slope appears to be at about 2030 metres elevation, and the break at the foot of the slope at about 875 m, giving a vertical extent of about 1155 metres. The toe of the deposit is at about 550 metres elevation, which means that the runout lost about 225 metres elevation over 10,000 metres, giving a travel angle of about 1.3 degrees. This is exceptionally low.
This part of Alaska is now firmly established as the global hotspot for rock avalanche activity. Recent events include the Tyndall Glacier Rock Avalanche, the Ferebee rock avalanche, the Mount La Perouse rock avalanche, the Mount Jarvis Rock avalanche and the Mount Lituya Rock Avalanche. A detailed study is urgently needed to understand why this area is so active at present.