{"id":3696,"date":"2013-06-05T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2013-06-06T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:12:58","slug":"landslides-taking-place-in-north-and-east-iceland-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3696","title":{"rendered":"Risk of landslides in north and east Iceland at the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth pointing out that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icelandic Meteorological Office<\/a> has put out a warning for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landslide\" target=\"_blank\">landslides<\/a> in north and east Iceland due to spring melt water and heavy rain on top of that.<\/p>\n<p>There have already many landslides taken place in north and east Iceland, many of the blocking roads and damaging them in the worst cases. Along with creating damage to power lines in few rare cases. Any travelers in north and east Iceland should at least keep a eye out for landslide risk if they are going up in Iceland. Due to heavy snow highland roads are still closed, please see Iceland Road administration road conditions web page for more details, it is in Icelandic and can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegagerdin.is\/umferd-og-faerd\/faerd-og-astand\/faerd-og-vedur\/faerd-um-allt-land\/island1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a considerable risk of ice-dam formation in Iceland at the moment, when it breaks a flood follows and those floods can be dangerous to both people and animals.<\/p>\n<p>For pictures and videos of the landslides, please see the R\u00fav news coverage below. It is in Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/aukid-rennsli-sest-utan-ur-geimi\" target=\"_blank\">Auki\u00f0 rennsli s\u00e9st utan \u00far geimi<\/a> (Satellite pictures)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/vatnavextir-valda-tjoni\" target=\"_blank\">Vatnavextir valda tj\u00f3ni<\/a> (Pictures)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/enn-falla-skridur-a-nordurlandi\" target=\"_blank\">Enn falla skri\u00f0ur \u00e1 Nor\u00f0urlandi<\/a> (Pictures)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/lokad-um-koldukinn-fram-yfir-helgi\" target=\"_blank\">Loka\u00f0 um K\u00f6ldukinn fram yfir helgi<\/a> (pictures and a video, road closed news)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/enn-talin-haetta-a-skridufollum-i-koldukinn\" target=\"_blank\">Enn talin h\u00e6tta \u00e1 skri\u00f0uf\u00f6llum \u00ed K\u00f6ldukinn<\/a> (Picture, risk of more landslides)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/250-metra-aurskrida-tok-veginn-i-sundur\" target=\"_blank\">250 metra aurskri\u00f0a t\u00f3k veginn \u00ed sundur<\/a> (picture, video of a large landslide)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/thjodvegur-85-lokadur\" target=\"_blank\">\u00dej\u00f3\u00f0vegur 85 loka\u00f0ur<\/a> (road 85 closed, picture)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/stort-krapaflod-i-fljotsdal\" target=\"_blank\">St\u00f3rt krapafl\u00f3\u00f0 \u00ed Flj\u00f3tsdal<\/a> (flood due to ice-dam, video, pictures)<\/p>\n<p><em>Blog post updated at 22:12 UTC on 05-June-2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth pointing out that Icelandic Meteorological Office has put out a warning for landslides in north and east Iceland due to spring melt water and heavy rain on top of that. There have already many landslides taken place in north and east Iceland, many of the blocking roads and damaging them in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risk of landslides in north and east Iceland at the moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-landslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}