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Kilauea volcano erupts on Big Island, Hawaii
- Dec, 20, 2020
- Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Hawaii
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Kilauea volcano, situated on the Big Island of Hawaii, erupted on December 20, 2020. Kilauea is a volcano that is mostly characterized by fluid lava flows. Being the youngest one of the Hawaiian...
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Captivating Geotechnical Engineering News in 2020
Geoengineer.org is pleased to launch a video with a selection of the most captivating news that were posted in 2020. Big things happened in 2020 at the Geotechnical world as we posted a total of 208...
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Introducing RSData - Material Models Made Easy
- Dec, 21, 2020
- Rock Engineering Soil Mechanics Soil Behavior Modeling Rock Mass Characterization News On Software News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
Introducing the newly revamped program, RSData. Formerly know as RocData, RSData is Rocscience’s newest tool for studying, analyzing, and calibrating material models. It is the ultimate companion...
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Spectacular eruption of Mount Etna in Italy
A spectacular volcanic eruption that sent lava and smoke more than 100 meters into the air occurred on Sunday, December 13, 2020, at Mount Etna, Italy. Mount Etna is located in Sicily, the largest is...
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Stunning cliff collapse in the Canary Islands caught on video
A stunning cliff collapse that occurred in the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain situated in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Morocco was caught on camera. The ground failure happened on No...
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Rainfall-induced landslide hits Alaska: 2 people missing
- Dec, 02, 2020
- Landslides News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Alaska, Haines
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Six people went initially missing after a major landslide struck Alaska. The landslide occurred on December 2, 2020, in a region near Haines, a town located in southeastern Alaska near the borders wi...
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GEER Report for Medicane Ianos Released: Documents thousands of landslides, bridge collapses and infrastructure damage
- Dec, 17, 2020
- Landslides Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters News On Research / Academia News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Greece
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) released a report documenting damage from Medicane Ianos. Medicane Ianos, a Mediterranean Hurricane, impacted Greece on September 17-20 2...
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Bentley introduces regularized Hoek-Brown model in PLAXIS 2D
- Jun, 29, 2020
- Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Tunneling Tunneling In Rock News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Bentley has recently applied a generalized Hoek and Brown (HB) model to simulate the behavior of brittle rocks in underground excavations. The HB failure criterion has been widely utilized over the p...
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Study on the East African Rift System: Madagascar will split into pieces
- Sep, 23, 2020
- Structural Geology News On Research / Academia
- East Africa
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
According to a new study on the kinematics of the East African Rift System, much of the continental regions are currently splitting with Madagascar being gradually separated into pieces. East African...
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Stunning sea stack failure in Isle of Wight, UK
- Nov, 15, 2020
- Landslides Erosion News On Natural Disasters / Failures Engineering Geology
- United Kingdom, Freshwater
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A stunning sea stack collapse occurred amid strong winds in the Isle of Wight, northern United Kingdom. In geological terms, a sea stack is practically a large column of rock standing in the sea near...
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