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Floods and Landslides Sweep Across Northern Italy

Northern Italy faced severe flooding and landslides on September 22, 2025, following days of heavy rain. The Seveso River in Milan overflowed its banks, inundating schools and residential neighborhoo...

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Alpine Geology Overcome: Brenner Tunnel Milestone Reached

The Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT), stretching 64 km including the Innsbruck bypass, has achieved a significant milestone with the connection of its exploratory tunnel between Austria and Italy. This achi...

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San Francisco Bay Area Shaken by 4.3–4.6 Magnitude Earthquake

A magnitude 4.3–4.6 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area in the early hours of September 22, 2025. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the epicenter near Berkeley, just east o...

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Summer thunderstorms triggers mudslides and flash flooding in San Bernardino County, California

Heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Mario on September 17–18, 2025, caused widespread flooding, mudslides, and debris flows in San Bernardino County, California. The event resulted in...

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Road Collapse in Chiang Mai Claims Life of Infrastructure Worker

On September 10, 2025, an infrastructure worker tragically lost his life after being buried beneath a collapsed roadway in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. The collapse occurred during an inspection of...

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Sinkhole swallows soda in Iztapalapa, Mexico City

A truck carrying bottled soda fell into a sinkhole in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, after a section of pavement collapsed. Authorities had previously cordoned off the site when signs of instability were o...

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2024 Best Geosynthetics Papers by IGS

Each year, Geosynthetics International (GI), the official journal of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), and Geotextiles and Geomembranes (G&G) honor papers that make outstanding contr...

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Italy Launches Campolattaro Reservoir Project

Construction has officially commenced on the Campolattaro Dam in Benevento, Italy, following the launch of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) “Falanghina” on September 10, 2025. The project, originally...

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Powerful 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Kamchatka Peninsula

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on September 12, 2025. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the epicentre was located about 70 miles east of Petrop...

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Balancing Coastal Risk: Japan’s 395–430 km Tsunami Seawall with Nature-Based Measures and Localised Opposition

Following the 2011 Tōhoku event, authorities advanced a nationwide tsunami risk-reduction program centered on a continuous series of coastal barriers often referred to as the “Great Wall of Japan.” T...

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