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Corrosion of piles the main reason of Leo Frigo Bridge’s failure (video)

Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials made efforts to find out the reasons of the settlement that occurred in Leo Frigo Bridge, in Green Bay on September 25, 2013. The main reason, accor...

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Chaos from storms and floods in Southeast Asia

Hundreds of people have been killed and almost 3 million were affected by floods and previous storms in Southeast Asia. In Cambodia residents evacuated the area around Mekong River due to the river’s...

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Dams in Michigan ready to collapse (video)

A lot of Michigan’s dams are very old and over the lifespan for a dam (50 years), raising worries about their function and the potential hazard of failure. A typical example is the Hamilton Dam that s...

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Celebrating Karl Terzaghi’ s birthday!

On this day about 130 years ago Karl Terzaghi, widely known as the father of soil mechanics, was born. His perspective and his work gave the world a different concept on geotechnical engineering. He i...

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Rockslide on Mount Princeton in Colorado ended up with five casualties

A rockslide occurred on Monday in Chaffee County, in south-central Colorado killing five people who were hiking on a trail to Agnes Vaille Falls. The causes of the incident are not yet identified....

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Road subsidence in Bangkok on top of MRT’s tunnel

A section of the Charoenkrung Road in front of the Leng Noei Yi Temple (Wat Mangkorn Kammalawat) in Bangkok collapsed last week, affecting the area of the blue line’s extension underneath. Accordin...

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Pakistan earthquake forms a new island

An earthquake (Mw 7.7) occurred on Tuesday in south-central Pakistan resulting in 400 deaths, many injuries and a new island! The movement of the tectonic plates is the main reason of the quake ass...

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Leo Frigo Bridge closed due to roadway’s failure

Settlement of a wide section of the roadway on the east side of Leo Frigo Bridge, in Green Bay, Wisconsin was noticed early Wednesday morning and police ordered the closure of the Bridge. DOT official...

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Levee’s failure in 1993 affects a man’s life until today

A large flood back in 1993 caused a levee on the Mississippi River, in West Quincy, to break. The reasons of the disaster were many, among them a man, named James Robert Scott, with a criminal past. Q...

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Method predicting the size of past earthquakes: is it reliable?

Researchers have tried to estimate the frequency of earthquakes in the past in order to indicate possible earthquakes in the future. To do so researchers of Oregon provided a method to correlate the s...

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