News on Natural Disasters / Failures

Landslide crumbles down San Bernardino County’s mountain in California (video)

A video by San Bernardino County firefighters captures the moment the large volume of snow, rock, soil and timber slides off the mountainside. Being as large as 3 football fields, the landslid...

Sinking and tilting of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has led things to courts

In 2016, it became public that the 58–story skyscraper - the biggest residential building of San Francisco - was both sinking and tilting at non-acceptable rates. Blaming the building's inadequate fou...

Damage to California’s Oroville Dam forces mass evacuation under the threat of flooding

Almost 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area around Oroville, California on Sunday afternoon, after erosion caused damage in both spillways of America's tallest dam at Lake Oroville. The...

Hotel collapses after heavy rain in Peru (video)

La Hacienda hotel collapsed into Sicra River in the Peruvian town of Lircay, on January 26, 2017, due to foundation erosion caused by the heavy rains that hit the region. According to the Civil Def...

Landslide in Greece cuts off access to an entire village (video)

A live video captured the moment of sliding, as the large volume of land moved downslope and blocked the road near the city of Patras, in Achaia province. The mudslide developed gradually, from Jan...

Giant sinkhole opens up in Northern Cape, South Africa (Video)

A large expanding crack appeared in Northern Cape, South Africa, between the cities of Daniëlskuil and Kuruman, following the heavy rains that hit the region at the beginning of January.  The...

Avalanche triggered by quakes buries hotel in Italy

Four earthquakes of magnitude above five hit central Italy on Wednesday, triggering a deadly avalanche that swept into Rigopiano Hotel, at the foot of the Gran Sasso mountain. The tremors came righ...

Massive Landslide Strikes Northern Argentina

Intense rainfall caused a major landslide event in the northern Argentine province Jujuy last week.  The landslide occurred on Tuesday, January 10 and caused significant damage to infrastructu...

New Zealand Kaikoura 7.8M Earthquake Reconnaissance Efforts Take Advantage of Drone and 3D Mapping Technology

Geoengineer.org join forces with University of Michigan, GEER reconnaissance team and GNS science geologists and engineers to provide UAV expertise in 3D mapping of landslides and ground-surface fault...

Sinkhole Destroys Five Lane Street in Fukuoka, Japan (Video)

On Tuesday, November 8th, two small sinkholes formed beneath a 5 lane street in Fukuoka, Japan. The sinkholes grew in size until they combined into a single large sinkhole measuring 30 meters (98 f...

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