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After 700,000 years of silence, InSAR unveils that Iran’s Taftan volcano shows signs of awakening

The Taftan Volcano in southeastern Iran, long thought to be extinct, is showing signs of renewed activity after approximately 700,000 years of dormancy. Recent satellite data analyzed between July 20...

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Arizona Flooding Leaves Four Dead and Exposes Vulnerabilities in Mining Region Settlements

Severe flooding struck Arizona in late September 2025, leaving four people dead and prompting widespread emergency operations. The rural community of Globe, a 19th-century mining town located about 8...

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Sinkhole swallows soda in Iztapalapa, Mexico City

A truck carrying bottled soda fell into a sinkhole in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, after a section of pavement collapsed. Authorities had previously cordoned off the site when signs of instability were o...

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Saw Mill River Parkway Collapse Highlights Storm-Driven Soil Instability

On September 8, 2025, a section of the Saw Mill River Parkway in Westchester County collapsed following intense rainfall across the tri-state area. The failure occurred between Lawrence Street in Dob...

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Quick Clay Failure on Norway’s E6 at Levanger

On August 30, 2025, a suspected quick clay landslide severed Norway’s main north–south corridor near Nesvatnet, Levanger, collapsing both lanes of the E6, an older parallel road, and a section of the...

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Kansai International Airport: Engineering Ambition Meets Geotechnical Clayey Reality

Kansai International Airport (KIX), one of Asia’s busiest aviation hubs, was constructed entirely on an artificial island in Osaka Bay. Opened in 1994, the airport spans over 2,600 acres across two m...

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Sinkhole in Ventura Linked to Construction Shoring Collapse

A construction site on Front Street in Ventura, California, experienced a severe ground collapse that created a large sinkhole, resulting in the loss of multiple vehicles and damage to nearby propert...

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Sinking Cities: The U.S. Subsidence Crisis

A recent study has revealed a trend affecting the stability of American urban infrastructure: land subsidence. Using high-resolution satellite radar data, researchers identified that all but three of...

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Seoul’s Underground Infrastructure Raises Ground Stability Concerns

Seoul’s recent sinkholes have raised public safety concerns and questions on how existing and future underground infrastructure affects such events.  On March 25th, as you can see in the following vi...

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Ground Shifts and Gaps in Safety: What Caused the Gwangmyeong Subway Failure?

On April 11, a devastating collapse occurred at a subway construction site in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, leaving one worker rescued after 13 hours underground and another still missing. The tunnel, bu...

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