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Public release of the NASEM Report on Liquefaction Assessment

The National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine (NASEM) recently released a report of high value for the engineering community on the "State of the Art and Practice in the Assessment of...

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Earthquake Measuring 6.9 Strikes Papua New Guinea

On Monday, October 17th, a large 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred near Papua New Guinea. The quake originated near New Britain Island, just north of Papua New Guinea according to the U.S. Geologic...

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Useful preliminary findings from the earthquake sequence in central Italy unveiled by an Italy-US GEER team's engineering reconnaissance

Useful preliminary findings from the earthquake sequence in central Italy unveiled by an Italy-US GEER team's engineering reconnaissance. From 5 to 9 September 2016, a multi-disciplinary Italy-US t...

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Taiwanese Developer Arrested Who Built Apartments Destroyed in Earthquake

The developer of a Taiwanese apartment complex that collapsed during 6.4 magnitude earthquake Tainan, Taiwan has been arrested on suspicion of criminal misconduct resulting in fatalities.   Th...

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Attend ICONHIC 2016 Conference, Chania, Greece

Geoengineer.org is delighted to invite you to Chania, Greece for the “1st International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure: Protection, Design, Rehabilitation” that takes place on 28-30...

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M7.1 Earthquake in Vanuatu

A M7.1 Earthquake, recorded on Wednesday struck just off the coast of the island nation of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean, but the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) announced that there was no tsu...

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Indications For Ancient Oceanic Mega-Tsunami In The Atlantic

Scientists 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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How Do Dams Trigger Earthquakes?

According to scientists, earthquakes are triggered by dams, since there are many cases giving evidence that the earthquakes have been linked to the construction of dams. Dr. V. P Jauhari in his pap...

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Japan 2011 earthquake continues to cause climate changes

According to a new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, thousands of tons of global-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals were released into the atmosphere, following the Tohoku 2011 eart...

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Scientific prediction says the Big One is more likely than previously assessed

Chances of a large magnitude earthquake in California are higher than previously estimated seven years ago. Scientists came up with the new prediction using a new model based on the latest research an...

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