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5 dead, 15 missing after mudslide in southern Chile (video)

The mudslide tore through the small town of Villa Santa Lucia, near Chaiten in coastal Patagonia, Chile, on Saturday, December 16, after a night of torrential downpours. The video that follows, tak...

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PDI Introduces New Products

Pile Dynamics continuously focuses on innovation of QA/QC products for the deep foundations industry. Over the next few months, we will launch several new products including, the Static Load Teste...

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Understanding Safety Precautions During A Building Renovation

Are you embarking on revamping your entire commercial property and building? If so, there are likely a hundred different tasks on your list of things to do. The first step is hiring a responsible cont...

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Scientists to map areas at risk from liquefaction (video)

A team of researchers has been brought together under LIQUEFACT project to investigate and find solutions against one of the most devastating forms of seismic phenomena – liquefaction. Liquefaction...

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All the latest capabilities and fixes of MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 7

The MicroStation product team of Bentley is pleased to announce the availability of MicroStation CONNECT Edition x64 Update 7 (10.07.00.39) on Fulfillment Center and for update through the CONNECTION...

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Freetown’s landslide and flooding disaster was 90 percent man-made

Preventable human causes are being blamed for the landslides and flooding that hit Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, in August 2017, killing around 500 people and destroying dozens of homes. The si...

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Strong earthquake hits southeastern Iran, no casualties reported

The magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Iran on Friday, December 1, injuring 42 people and destroying several homes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 36 miles (58 km) nor...

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Gravity signals could rapidly quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes

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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Hayward Baker works on iconic US landmark

When a St Louis contractor ran into an unexpected problem on the site of one of America’s most iconic landmarks, they turned to Hayward Baker to get them out of a hole. Built more than 50 years ag...

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Invitation to review web-based student projects on "Geoenvironmental Engineering" prepared by Univ. of Michigan students

We invite you to provide feedback on this year's students of Michigan projects on "Geoenvironmental Engineering.   As part of the CEE549 Geoenvironmental Engineering course that is being...

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