Heavy rainfall on Monday in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan has caused several mudslides that have left six dead. Most of the deaths are attributed to homes being destroyed by the landslides; the res...
Read MoreTwo sinkholes in west Texas near the town of Wink are growing rapidly according to a study by Southern Methodist University led by professor Zhong Lu and researcher Jin-Woo Kim. The first sinkhole for...
Read MoreOn Wednesday June 8th, a large sinkhole opened in the middle of Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa, Canada. The hole expanded and consumed three lanes of the road as well as the sidewalk and a parked mi...
Read MoreThe search continues for the miners buried in a Mississippi gravel pit. On Friday, June 3rd, the pit collapsed, burying two workers. As of Saturday, June 10th, the bodies of both workers had...
Read MoreOn May 25th, a sinkhole appeared on the side of the Lungarno Torrigiani road running along the Arno River in Florence, Italy. The sinkhole spanned approximately 200 meters and dozens of parked cars fe...
Read MoreOn May 23rd, a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar occurred killing at least 12 workers and leaving many more missing. Over 100 workers were in the area at the time and it is unknown how many...
Read MoreOn May 22nd, a sinkhole appeared near a busy intersection in Ruijin, a city in the Jiangxi privince of southeast China. Four cars and a tree fell into the sinkhole. Luckily, the cars were unoccupied a...
Read MoreOban, Scotland has experienced a large amount of seismic activity lately. Last week, two small earthquakes were measured in the small town on the west cost of Scotland. The first earthquake,...
Read MoreThe Mosul Dam on the Tigris River in northern Iraq is the largest Dam in the country and provides power to nearly two million people. According to engineers, the dam is at serious risk of collapse and...
Read MoreOn May 8th, a landslide occurred at the site of a future hydropower plant in Taining county of the Fujian province in China; 41 workers were unaccounted for. The landslide occurred...
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