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Rockslide devastates a store in Alaska
- Feb, 27, 2020
- Rock Engineering Landslides News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Alaska, Ketchikan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A rockslide struck a grocery store in Alaska causing severe structural damage. The slide struck the Tatsuda's IGA store located in Ketchikan, a city in southeastern Alaska, on February 27, 2020. Curr...
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Submit your geotechnical project for the Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2020 Awards
- Feb, 25, 2020
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Foundation Design / Construction Green Infrastructure Railway Geotechnics Pavement Offshore Geotechnics Ports Risk & Reliability Rock Engineering Soil Mechanics Tunneling Underground Structures News On Events News On Awards
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, to be held from October 12-15 in Vancouver Conversion Centre will conclude with the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards gala and ceremony, where the winners...
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Rockfall in New Zealand's road: One driver dead
- Nov, 13, 2019
- Landslides Rock Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- New Zealand, Murchison
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A rock boulder detached from a slope near a road hitting a car and killing its driver in New Zealand. The incident occurred at about 1:50 pm local time on November 13, 2019, in the State Highway 6. T...
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Swiss Alps are destabilizing due to global warming
- Oct, 09, 2019
- Engineering Geology Landslides Rock Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Switzerland, Airolo
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Rockfall incidents are starting to increase as a result of temperature rise and glacier melting in the Swiss Alps. Swiss Alps that are located south, south-east of Switzerland, create a mountainous t...
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Huge rockfall in Boulder Canyon triggered by blasting works
- Sep, 11, 2019
- Landslides Rock Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, Colorado
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A huge rockfall caused by blasting works closed a highway located near Boulder, Colorado. The rockslide occurred on September 11, 2019. The scheduled blast was supposed to take down about 305 m3. How...
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What is geotechnical engineering? People in the streets answer
- May, 28, 2019
- Other News Other Geotechnical Rock Engineering Soil Mechanics
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Let's see a wide range of answers about how common people perceive the term "geotechnics." Geotechnical engineering involves numerous scientific fields including soil and rock mechanics, hydrogeol...
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Earthquakes induced by injection wells
- Sep, 12, 2018
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Rock Engineering Soil Dynamics In-Situ Seismic
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz found that bigger and more distant earthquakes can occur when injecting fluid into sedimentary rock than into the underlying basement rock. The evidence from this study...
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Italian Church miraculously saved by rockfall
- May, 29, 2018
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Rock Engineering Engineering Geology
- Gallivaggio, Sondrio, Italy
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A huge rockfall (in May 29, 2018) occured in North Italy but fortunately the local cathedral survived. The 5,000 cubic meter rockfall was triggered in Gallivaggio, a region in Lombardia. The sanctu...
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The ISRM European Rock Mechanics Symposium Eurock 2018 approaches
- May, 22, 2018
- News On Events Rock Engineering
- St. Petersburg Mining University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The ISRM European Rock Mechanics Symposion Eurock 2018 will be held on 22-27 of May, 2018 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The subject of the conference is denoted as ''Geomechanics and Geodyn...
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Photos Found from Aberdeen Sewer Construction in 1901
- Sep, 27, 2016
- News On Projects / Industry Foundation Design / Construction Rock Engineering
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Bob Nicoll, an employee of the Scottish Water service has revealed photos in his possession from the 1901 construction of the Aberdeen sewer system. He rescued the photos along with other historica...
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