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Video: The chronicle of a slow moving landslide; Val Parghera Switzerland
- Feb, 13, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides Landslides
- Val Parghera Switzerland
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Contrary to the common belief that landslides are violent, quickly evolving natural phenomena, triggered by heavy rain, earthquakes or volcanic activity, today's time lapse proves that landslides may...
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Greece's prefectures devastated by river overflows, as levees break and villages evacuated
- Feb, 06, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Levees Landslides
- Greece
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Flooding phenomena continue to strike many areas in Greece, causing serious problems in populated areas and farming land as existing levees can no longer restrain the waters of swollen rivers. See the...
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Photogallery: Torrential rain causes landslides and floods to Epirus prefecture; Greece
- Feb, 05, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Ioannina, Greece
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Days of torrential rain have flooded and triggered landslides in many regions of Epirus prefecture in Greece, which have been declared in a state of emergency. See the extent of destruction in the pho...
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Amtrak rail corridor major reliability upgrade undertaken by WSDOT
WSDOT is currently undertaking a landslide prevention project along its Amtrak Cascades rail corridor aiming in eliminating service disruptions due to the frequent landslide occurrence of the past yea...
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Earthquake resistant pipes installed in the LA water network
- Jan, 21, 2015
- News On Projects / Industry Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Landslides
- Los Angeles, USA
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The 21st anniversary of the magnitude 6.7 1994 Northridge Earthquake, became the opportunity for announcing the upgrade of the water-pipe infrastructure around the Northridge Hospital Medical Center....
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Video: Rock-A-Nore rockfall - cliff collapses and caught on video!
- Jan, 19, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Rock-a-Nore, Hastings, UK
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A steep coastal cliff collapses at Rock-a-Nore in Hastings, UK, and the event is captured in video! The collapse occurred after days of continuous rain, which caused additional damage and many more la...
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Landslides in Indonesia engulf entire villages and cause casualties
- Dec, 18, 2014
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Banjarnegara, Java
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Following days of heavy rains, massive landslides in Indonesia caused many casualties and burried entire villages under mud and rubble. Many people are still reported as missing while more rain...
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Has the world's largest landslide occurred in Utah?
- Nov, 24, 2014
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Beaver city, Utah
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Millions of years ago, the sloping ground of southwest Utah was frequently covered with ash and debris, as a result of the intense volcanic activity taking place in the area. Those ash and debris laye...
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Deadly landslides occur in Italy and Switzerland due to torrential rainfall
- Nov, 18, 2014
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Lugano, Italy
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Switzerland and northern Italy are severely battered by heavy rain in the last days, which caused extensive landslides and cost several lives. Weather forecasts predict that rain will continue to hit...
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Landslides and earthquakes to be correlated, according to recent study
- Nov, 07, 2014
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Landslides
- Syracuse, New York
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A recently published study demonstrates that earthquakes instead of climate change as previously thought, have an effect on the rate of landslides in Peru. The particular findings were published in Na...
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