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Ground collapse near riverbank in Brazil [video]

According to local news service Para, a massive crater was created on January 4, in the city of Abaetetuba in the northern state of Para in Brazil, destroying 13 houses. After inspecting the area,...

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New study shows 16 earthquakes were triggered by landslide

The landslide at the Bingham Canyon copper mine that occurred last April, near Salt Lake City in Utah, seems to be the largest non-volcanic landslide in North America in modern times, with almost 65 m...

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India TBMs blamed for building cracks

The construction of the first phase of the Chennai Metro project in India is scheduled to be completed by spring 2015. During the construction cracks were detected in more than 200 buildings in Chenna...

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Landslide in Mexico results in coastal highway collapse [video]

Last Saturday a coastal road located about 60miles from the Mexico-United States border connecting the Mexican towns of Ensenada and Tijuana, collapsed after a landslide that was probably triggered by...

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Rachid Hankour, Ph.D. January 31, 1960 - December 17, 2013

Dr. Rachid Hankour, of Harvard, Massachussets, Vice President and Director of Lab Systems at Geocomp Corporation, and Professor of the Practice at Tufts University School of Engineering, passed away p...

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Herrenknecht Direct Pipe method used in Canada

Herrenknecht Direct Pipe technology was used for the construction of the Beaver River pipeline in the province of Alberta, Canada. The length of the pipeline was 0.21miles (340m) with a diameter of 42...

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Huge underwater landslide contributed to Japanese devastating tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku was the most powerful earthquake in the history of Japan and it was, until now, considered the main reason for the tsunami waves that killed al...

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Hayward Baker 2014 Calendar now available

Since first introduced in 1996, Hayward Baker’s annual calendar has become immensely popular with engineering and construction industry professionals across North America. Each year, the illustrat...

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New study shows threat of landslide induced tsunamis overrated

A new study by the researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) reveals a new aspect of the correlation of the Canary Island landslides with tsunami waves, unlike previous estimates. Deep...

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The eruption of the world's largest mud volcano comes to an end!

The Lusi (Lumpur Sidoarjo) mud volcano, in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia, has been in eruption, since May 2006. Although the volcano was estimated to go on erupting...

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