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Reconstructing the 1929 Grand Banks underwater avalanche
- Jul, 17, 2018
- News On Research / Academia Earthquake Reconnaissance Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Foundation Design / Construction
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In a research from the University of Liverpool the 1929 Grand Banks underwater avalanche was reconstructed to better understand these common geohazards. The avalanche was triggered by the Mw 7.2 Gr...
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Top Geotechnical Journal Paper Award
- Jul, 05, 2018
- News On Awards Earthquake Reconnaissance Liquefaction Engineering Other Geotechnical Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Ricardo Dobry and Tarek Abdoun have been selected by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to receive the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award. The researchers, experts in ear...
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A new underlying mechanism in deadly 7.1R quake in Taiwan in 1906 has been uncovered
The earthquake was one of the deadliest to ever strike the country The earthquake was one of the deadliest to ever strike the country The 1906 Meishan earthquake, named after the village near wher...
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Visit Hayward Baker at the "5th GEESDV Conference"
- May, 22, 2018
- News On Events Earthquake Reconnaissance Other Geotechnical
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Don't miss the chance to visit Hayward Baker at the GEESDV 2018 Annual Conference at Austin, on June 10-13 2018. The technical material covered in the conference will be diverse, including ca...
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Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Taiwan
- Feb, 07, 2018
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Hualien County, Taiwan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The M6.4 quake hit Hualien County of eastern Taiwan at 15:50 UTC (23:50 local time) on Tuesday February 6, 2017. According to the USGS, the epicenter was located 21.4 km (13.3 miles) NNE of Hualien...
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Strong earthquake hits southeastern Iran, no casualties reported
- Dec, 02, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Iran
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Iran on Friday, December 1, injuring 42 people and destroying several homes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 36 miles (58 km) nor...
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Gravity signals could rapidly quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes
- Nov, 30, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity that happens almost instantaneously. In a new study, scientists observe and model the gravity-related signals stemming from this dis...
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Iran-Iraq border earthquake is the deadliest of 2017 (video)
- Nov, 14, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Iran
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The death toll from the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit Iran's mountainous border with Iraq on Sunday, has now been raised to at least 530 people, according to Iranian officials. The quake hit at...
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Fifty simulations show how a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out
- Oct, 31, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Earthquake Reconnaissance Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A University of Washington research project simulates 50 ways a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone could shake out in the northwest of the United States. The Cascadia Subducti...
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New study links Raton Basin earthquakes to oil and gas wastewater injections
- Oct, 26, 2017
- News On Research / Academia Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Colorado, United States
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A series of earthquakes between 2008 and 2010 in the Raton Basin - along the southern Colorado and northern New Mexico border – was likely due to fluids pumped underground during oil and gas wastewate...
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