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Flooded coal mine kills 10 workers

Ten miners were killed. Another two were rescued 10 days after the flooding on September 28, in the Zhengsheng coal mine in the North Province of Shanxi, China. Mine accidents are common in China o...

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Phyllis TBM arrives at Farringdon Station (video)

The first Crossrail tunnel was constructed after 17 months, by Phyllis TBM which completed its 4.2miles route from Royal Oak to Farringdon Station. Almost 1.1 million tonnes of material have been exca...

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Landslide in mine of Megalopolis Lignite Center in Greece (video)

The landslide had a length of 1km and was caused by an adjacent fault on September 14, 2013. The fault was previously known and was being monitored by scientists. According to econews the first geo...

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Corrosion of piles the main reason of Leo Frigo Bridge’s failure (video)

Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials made efforts to find out the reasons of the settlement that occurred in Leo Frigo Bridge, in Green Bay on September 25, 2013. The main reason, accor...

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Chaos from storms and floods in Southeast Asia

Hundreds of people have been killed and almost 3 million were affected by floods and previous storms in Southeast Asia. In Cambodia residents evacuated the area around Mekong River due to the river’s...

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Dams in Michigan ready to collapse (video)

A lot of Michigan’s dams are very old and over the lifespan for a dam (50 years), raising worries about their function and the potential hazard of failure. A typical example is the Hamilton Dam that s...

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Celebrating Karl Terzaghi’ s birthday!

On this day about 130 years ago Karl Terzaghi, widely known as the father of soil mechanics, was born. His perspective and his work gave the world a different concept on geotechnical engineering. He i...

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Rockslide on Mount Princeton in Colorado ended up with five casualties

A rockslide occurred on Monday in Chaffee County, in south-central Colorado killing five people who were hiking on a trail to Agnes Vaille Falls. The causes of the incident are not yet identified....

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September's issue of the Geoengineer newsletter is out!!

We are pleased to announce the 104th issue of our newsletter.  In this newsletter issue, we are featuring an ongoing project of the Panama Canal Expansion (see left column of this issue). In add...

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Road subsidence in Bangkok on top of MRT’s tunnel

A section of the Charoenkrung Road in front of the Leng Noei Yi Temple (Wat Mangkorn Kammalawat) in Bangkok collapsed last week, affecting the area of the blue line’s extension underneath. Accordin...

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