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Landslide in Italy causes serious infrastructure damage

A shallow landslide occurred in the Italian town of Montescaglioso last Tuesday, destroying roads and buildings, and causing a supermarket to collapse. The area is known to be affected by the&...

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Philippines landslides and infrastructure disasters by Typhoon Haiyan

More lives were lost and more landslides occurred in the Philippines last Friday by Typhoon Haiyan, only a month after the Philippines earthquake-induced landslides. The storm surge was defini...

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Tumbi Quarry landslide: was it caused by rainfall or seismic activity?

A paper by Robbins et al. 2013, reviews the landslide that occurred on January 24, 2012 in the Tagali Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The fatal consequences of the landsli...

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

We are pleased to announce the 105th issue of our newsletter. In this newsletter issue, you will learn about the benefits of Electrical Density Gauge in an interesting article and you will find the...

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Landslide sensors preventing disasters

A team from the Atmospheric Science Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville tested wireless sensors in an active landslide zone. The goal of the study was to estimate the potential infor...

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Philippines landslides induced by earthquake

Landslides, sinkholes, floods, liquefaction and earthquake deformation were some of the disastrous results of the M 7.1 earthquake that struck the island of Bohol on 15 October 2013. According to t...

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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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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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Huge landslide at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine. Mine slope monitoring paid off.

 A landslide finally occurred at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.  The Kennecot Copper Bingham Canyon Mine is the second largest copper producer in the United States, provid...

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Landslide in Whidbey Island, Washington, takes down one house, threatens more

A landslide has occurred at 4:15 am on Wednesday morning in Whidbey island. Nobody was killed, but the landslide took down one of the homes. Another home was left with a 10 ft backyard and is now evac...

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