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Landslide in Sardoá, Brazil, caught live, as crews were searching for survivors.

 Lanslide caused by heavy rains in the rural municipality of Sardoá, Brazil, is filmed from crews already on the spot, searching for survivors from earlier incident. The crew members arrived i...

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Sinkhole damages eight vintage valuable Corvettes at National Corvette Museum, in Bowling Green, Kentucky

A 40feet wide and at least 25feet deep sinkhole opened up inside the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY at 5:44AM local time on Wednesday Feb. 12th. Eight vintage cars were heavily damaged,...

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Shamsher Prakash Foundation - Special Award for Teaching

Associate Professor Tanya Kunberger, Ph.D., E.I.T., is the "SHAMSHER PRAKASH PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING" for young teachers recipient for 2013. Dr. Tanya Kunb...

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$7million concrete tunnel under railroad lines at Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.

The four-lane tunnel is constructed under the active Northern Southern Railroad Tracks - also used by Amtrak - applying a pioneering placement method, in which the tunnel sections are being jacke...

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80,000 tons of coal-ash spill from unlined storage facility into Dan river, North Carolina.

About 80,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated water has leaked from an idled, since 2012, coal-ash storage facility - the Dan river steam station - in Eden, Nor...

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Cephalonia earthquakes: EERI and GEER to investigate the seismic activity impact

GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance) Association in collaboration with EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) responded immediately to the continuous earthquake activity taking...

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Cephalonia earthquake, preliminary damage observations from Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineer

One of Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineers visited the island of Cephalonia,Greece, only two days after the second earthquake event (M=5.8), which caused extended damage mainly in the Lixouri pe...

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Geoengineer.org welcomes newest sponsor: Vertek

Geoengineer.org would like to extend a warm welcome to its newest annual corporate sponsor, Vertek, and thank them for their valued support of our efforts to advance the geoprofession! Vertek is curre...

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Second Major Earthquake hits Cephalonia island in Greece; causes significant damage; information hub established on GeoWorld; updates to follow

A new Mw 5.7 earthquake hit Cephalonia at 5:08 am on February 3rd 2014, less than 10 days after the Mw 5.9-6.1 earthquake that caused also significant damage, as reported by an earlier news item here...

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Solicitation for 2014 Shamsher Prakash Research Award

Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nomination (no application) for the 2014 SHAMSHER PRAKASH RESEARCH AWARD for young engineers, scientists and researchers (40 years or younger) from all over the wo...

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