Earth Watch Report - Landslide
The Arizona Department of Transportation says a 150-foot section of US 89 buckled this morning about 25 miles south of Page, Arizona.
Photographer: Arizona Department of Public Safety
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| 21.02.2013 | Landslide | USA | State of Arizona, [About 25 miles south of Paige] |  |
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Landslide in USA on Thursday, 21 February, 2013 at 06:50 (06:50 AM) UTC.
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| Page is cut off from points directly south by a deep, 150-foot-long crack in Highway 89 that occurred this morning about 25 miles south of Page, and it’s unknown when the road might be repaired. The road appears to have split in a few places, and is divided by a fissure greater than 5 feet deep in one area. Three accidents resulted from drivers hitting the large divide, with the most serious involving a person whose airbag deployed. She was transported to Page with minor injuries, according to state law enforcement officials. Page Unified School District is using a bypass to get students home about 45 minutes to 1 hour later than normal today and Thursday. It plans to change its pickup and dropoff times until the road is repaired.
Highway 160 and State Route 98 are recommended as alternatives, adding about 49 extra miles to the trip between Page and Flagstaff. The agency is sending geotechnical experts up to look at the problem and does not know when it might be repaired. “We do know that it’s not going to be a short-term closure. This is significant damage and it’s going to require significant repair work,” said Tim Tait, ADOT spokesman. ADOT isn’t sure yet what happened, he said. “It’s really too early to speculate. We have geotechnical engineers that are en route to the seen. They’ll be able to place some monitors and get a sense of what’s happening,” Tait said. No seismic activity was reported in the area, the Arizona Earthquake Information Center out of Northern Arizona University reported. ADOT says weather wasn’t at fault. |
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Wish we had more information on this. What caused this? An earthquake? Pole shift?
No seismic activity? Wuh uh, something happened
There is no conclusive cause as of yet. I doubt very much they will come out and say it was due to seismic activity. Although, with all the activity that area saw about 2 weeks ago when Utah, Arizona and California were having the seismic activity , alongside the Solomon Islands and Pacific Ring of Fire movement. It is a distinct possibility. Chances are they will chalk it up to structural defects . They still have not been able to or have chosen not to explain many of the sinkholes that are appearing all over the place. So I suppose we will see what surfaces at a later point in time.
Structural defects? Lord! I can see big holes in a highway not mixing the cement correctly or not laying down the base before pouring it…this? Nawwww.
Neither one of us is in the field, but good Lord, how about a little common, practical sense here…
That is what they would blame most of the sinkholes on in Florida. They would say that the fill that was used underneath to grade the road was not done properly. I remember once they even said that the sinkholes were created when the trees or organic material that had been used to fill had degraded , leaving gaps in the foundation beneath the road. Therefore making the road weak and causing it to crack and fall away to fill the hole that had been created beneath it.
Now I have no way of knowing if trees or their remaining trunk/roots that were cleared when they were preparing the land would indeed be incorporated into the fill that would later on become part of the foundation of said road. However, it is what was claimed by state authorities.
So your guess is as good as mine ,
I went back and looked a the photo again. That is NOT structural damage while building. That is some type of “earth shifting event.”
Not structural damage while building , but rather incorporated into the base it was built upon.
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I drive this all the time in semi.
Really ?
Sorry for the possible detours and inconveniences you may have experienced.
Was it as bad as depicted ?