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$7million concrete tunnel under railroad lines at Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.

The four-lane tunnel is constructed under the active Northern Southern Railroad Tracks - also used by Amtrak - applying a pioneering placement method, in which the tunnel sections are being jacke...

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80,000 tons of coal-ash spill from unlined storage facility into Dan river, North Carolina.

About 80,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated water has leaked from an idled, since 2012, coal-ash storage facility - the Dan river steam station - in Eden, Nor...

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Cephalonia earthquakes: EERI and GEER to investigate the seismic activity impact

GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance) Association in collaboration with EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) responded immediately to the continuous earthquake activity taking...

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Cephalonia earthquake, preliminary damage observations from Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineer

One of Geoengineer.org's geotechnical engineers visited the island of Cephalonia,Greece, only two days after the second earthquake event (M=5.8), which caused extended damage mainly in the Lixouri pe...

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Geoengineer.org welcomes newest sponsor: Vertek

Geoengineer.org would like to extend a warm welcome to its newest annual corporate sponsor, Vertek, and thank them for their valued support of our efforts to advance the geoprofession! Vertek is curre...

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Second Major Earthquake hits Cephalonia island in Greece; causes significant damage; information hub established on GeoWorld; updates to follow

A new Mw 5.7 earthquake hit Cephalonia at 5:08 am on February 3rd 2014, less than 10 days after the Mw 5.9-6.1 earthquake that caused also significant damage, as reported by an earlier news item here...

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Solicitation for 2014 Shamsher Prakash Research Award

Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nomination (no application) for the 2014 SHAMSHER PRAKASH RESEARCH AWARD for young engineers, scientists and researchers (40 years or younger) from all over the wo...

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Live Coverage of GeoCongress 2014 in Atlanta from Geoengineer.org!

The team of Geoengineer.org is pleased to announce we will be not only exhibiting and participating in GeoCongress 2014, but also providing an intensive technical LIVE ONLINE COVERAGE of the conferenc...

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Pile-driving to blame for building cracks in Seattle [video]

Structural damages and noise are the reasons why residents at the Canterbury Shores Condos on Madison Park waterfront are upset. Pile-driving work during construction of the new 520 Bridge near t...

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TBM Bertha unstuck and on its way

Last Tuesday in Seattle, the world’s largest TBM started moving again after nearly eight weeks of standing still some 60 feet underground. A 119ft long steel pipe was found to be the mystery object th...

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