The Technical Committee on Environmental Geotechnics (TC215) of the ISSMGE announced a Call for Papers for Case Histories in Geoenvironmental Engineering that will be published in ISSMGE's Intern...
Read MoreDeep Foundations Institute (DFI) has released a free, 187-page report from a workshop on quality assurance practices for acceptance of post-grouted drilled shafts. The workshop was held in Oc...
Read MoreBased on research from data collected with the MESSENGER spacecraft, NASA believes that Mercury is tectonically active. If correct, this makes Mercury the only tectonically active planet in the solar...
Read MoreResearchers along with USGS believe they may have developed a theory to explain the mid-plate earthquakes of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. They theorize that super dense rock exerts a gravitational pul...
Read MoreLast week, archaeologists made a discovery at the Temple of the Inscriptions in the Mayan ruins of Palenque. Using sonar, they found a canal under the temple that is believed to be a symbolic gateway...
Read MoreOn July 22nd, Chinese researchers announced that they had discovered an underwater sinkhole under the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands. Underwater sinkholes are also know as blue holes and thi...
Read MoreA recent study has found that Beijing, the capital of China is sinking as much as 11 cm per year. As one of the largest cities in the world with a population over 20 million, this could prove to be a...
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Utah have recreated the landslide that formed the Zion Canyon valley 4800 years ago. This landslide dammed the Virgin River than runs through the valley which caused a...
Read MoreA bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (energy that can power a house in the US for over a month). A bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (en...
Read MoreScientists have discovered that, 73,000 years ago, the biggest island of West Africa in the Atlantic, Santiago, where 250,000 people live today, was hit by a 244m high tsunami wave. The cause was the...
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