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Tremendous earthquake followed by tsunami struck Indonesia: 840 people dead
- Oct, 01, 2018
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A powerful Mw 7,5 earthquake hit Indonesian Island of Sulawesi triggering a large tsunami and killing at least 840 people. The tsunami struck the coastal city of Palu, home to 300,000 people, on Fr...
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Earthquakes induced by injection wells
- Sep, 12, 2018
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Rock Engineering Soil Dynamics In-Situ Seismic
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz found that bigger and more distant earthquakes can occur when injecting fluid into sedimentary rock than into the underlying basement rock. The evidence from this study...
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Top Geotechnical Journal Paper Award
- Jul, 05, 2018
- News On Awards Earthquake Reconnaissance Liquefaction Engineering Other Geotechnical Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Ricardo Dobry and Tarek Abdoun have been selected by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to receive the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award. The researchers, experts in ear...
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How does the Leaning Tower of Pisa survive earthquakes
- May, 22, 2018
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Soil Structure Interaction Soil Dynamics In-Situ Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Soil Structure Interaction Soil Dynamics In-Situ
- Leaning tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Despite the hazardous inclination of approximately five degrees, the Leaning Tower of Pisa (in Italy) has managed to survive four strong earthquakes since 1200 A.D. The construction of the Tower be...
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Consecutive earthquakes rock Hawaii’s Big Island as Kilauea Volcano continues to erupt
- May, 07, 2018
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
An unstable situation, with six fissures having opened up and spewing lava, and a strong earthquake of 6.9 magnitude. Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, which has been an active volcano –in fact one o...
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Shamsher Prakash Foundation 2018 prize solicitation
- Feb, 26, 2018
- Other News Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering Other Geotechnical
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nomination for the 2018 SHAMSHER PRAKASH RESEARCH AWARD for young engineers, scientists and researchers from all over the world. Shamsher Prakash Foundati...
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Gravity signals could rapidly quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes
- Nov, 30, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity that happens almost instantaneously. In a new study, scientists observe and model the gravity-related signals stemming from this dis...
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New study links Raton Basin earthquakes to oil and gas wastewater injections
- Oct, 26, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Colorado, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A series of earthquakes between 2008 and 2010 in the Raton Basin - along the southern Colorado and northern New Mexico border – was likely due to fluids pumped underground during oil and gas wastewate...
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Mexico gets hit again by deadly M7.1 earthquake (video)
- Sep, 22, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Mexico
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The earthquake struck central Mexico on Tuesday, September 19, killing at least 250 people. The 7.1- magnitude quake occurred around 1pm local time last Tuesday, causing a heavy, prolonged shaking...
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Stanford scientists develop software tool to reduce risk of manmade earthquakes
- Mar, 13, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Fault Slip Potential (FSP) tool identifies risky faults by determining the probability of a fault being pushed to slip due to wastewater injection and other activities associated with oil and gas...
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