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The information age in Geotechnics is here: US Tunnel Boring Machines tweet and people listen!

Tunnel-boring machines deployed at tunneling projects across the U.S. are using Twitter to share observations in real-time with anyone interested. And wow! People are interested! They want to hear and...

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Grand Dam on the Blue Nile River continues to cause tension between Ethiopia and Egypt

Foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia met in Addis Ababa on Monday to discuss the consequences of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that is being constructed the last two years and reportedly is 2...

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Levees yield in Missouri, Germany and the Czech republic; flooding continues; thousands displaced

Levees were breached in two locations north of St. Louis, Missouri, flooding residential areas. According to CNN, “a 100- to 150-foot section of levee gave way outside West Alton, Missouri, Tuesday ne...

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Houses built on reportedly old dump, severely damaged. Residents blame city of Havelock, North Carolina

ABC News reports on the significant settlement of an area in Havelock, North Carolina. Reportedly, within very shallow depth, waste material is being excavated in the backyard of residents. The area i...

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Tunnel cave-in at Gold and Copper Mine in Indonesia; Two killed, 27 missing

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the world's biggest publicly traded copper producer, reported a tunnel collapse at its Grasberg complex in Indonesia. Grasberg in Papua province includes open-...

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Contractor destroys a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple in Belize and uses limestone as gravel for a village road

Bloomberg reports that according to the National Institute of Culture and Heritage in Belize, a contractor has destroyed a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple and used the limestone bricks for gravel to build...

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Kurt R. Fraese has been elected as the new ASFE/GBA president

Kurt R. Fraese, L.G. is the new president of ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA), a not-for-profit association of geoprofessional firms that employ some 150,000 individuals worldwide....

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Huge landslide at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine. Mine slope monitoring paid off.

 A landslide finally occurred at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.  The Kennecot Copper Bingham Canyon Mine is the second largest copper producer in the United States, provid...

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Man swallowed by a Sinkhole in Shenzhen city, China. Moment captured on Video

On Wednesday 27th of March, a new sinkhole appeared in Shenzhen city in China swallowing a 25-yr old Chinese security guard. The moment was captured on video. The sinkhole was 65 ft deep, but the man...

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Landslide in Whidbey Island, Washington, takes down one house, threatens more

A landslide has occurred at 4:15 am on Wednesday morning in Whidbey island. Nobody was killed, but the landslide took down one of the homes. Another home was left with a 10 ft backyard and is now evac...

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