Ropoto: A town in Greece lost to a landslide

AGU Blogosphere ^ | 2/23/16 | dr-dave

[JimSEA]

Ropoto in Greece

In the last week a few media outlets (such as Atlas Obscura) have carried reports about the town of Ropoto in Greece, which in 2010 was abandoned due to a landslide, inspired by an article on the Greek Explorer website. The latter has made a short documentary about the town, and its landslide. The short description that goes with the film is as follows:

Ropoto was once a thriving village and home to 300 families, but a landslide in 2012 turned the village into a ghost town. Today, forgotten by people and authorities, Ropoto’s terrain is still sinking, slowly moving the half-standing structures.

[JimSEA]

The Top picture shows the impact the slide has had on the town and the lower photo shows the extent of the landslide

This link shows a massive landslide in Italy that killed over 2,000 some sixty years ago.

[soycd]

Give the million or so migrants shovels and point them at the work. They might even do something good with their worthless lives.

[KGeorge]

Fascinating blog, JimSEA. Thanks.

ugh That book is out of print.

[JimSEA]

This may be of some interest. Of course, on a geological time scale, all of Greece and much more is sinking underwater into the Hellenic Trench. See Here

[Larry Lucido]

Generation Landslide https://g.co/kgs/Qp6d5

[grey_whiskers]

Landslide? GO TRUMP!

[Does so]

Water always wins...

[Rockpile]

WAH! WAH! Whine Bawwll Bo hoo hoo!! You posted from a blog! Blubber! Blubbber! Sniffle Blog Pimp!

Don’t you know you should only link to the LA Times and WaPo and NYT?

[T-Bone Texan]

I just spent 2 hours watching mudflows.

They are really cool and scary.

[JimSEA]

Aren’t they though. It makes you rethink some of the places you like to build for the view!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 2/29/2016. Thanks JimSEA, missed your ping three months ago.

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