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Flood-Induced Collapse of Bridgewater Canal Embankment Raises Infrastructure Alarm

The Bridgewater Canal in Cheshire, a marvel of 18th-century engineering, recently faced a dramatic breach due to heavy flooding, marking the first major collapse of the waterway in over five decades....

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Construction Site Tragedy in Panchkula: Soil Collapse Injures Five Workers

In a tragic incident at Barwala Industrial Area, Panchkula, five laborers were injured when a pile of soil collapsed during excavation work at an under-construction site. The accident occurred as the...

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China's Shenzhen Construction Collapse has left 13 workers missing: The Geotechnical Perspective

A catastrophic ground collapse at the construction site for the Shenzhen-Jiangmen railway in Bao’an district, southern China, has left 13 workers missing and raised pressing concerns about geotechnic...

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Thames Towpath Collapse: A Wake-Up Call for Resilient Riverbank Design

The recent collapse of a section of the Thames towpath near Kew Gardens has highlighted the challenges facing urban infrastructure along riverbanks. Following heavy rain and rising river levels in mi...

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Footage shows Acapulco pool collapsing due to landslide in the wake of hurricane John

Hurricane John has been described as a “zombie” hurricane, as it made landfall in Mexico on Monday the 23rd of September, dissipated the next day, and then restrengthened into a hurricane over the Pa...

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Record rain causes floods and landslides in Japan

The Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa was once again tested by extreme weather phenomena during the past weekend, while still recovering from the devastating events of the New Year’s Day earthquake tha...

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New study finds that 2023 rockslide-induced mega-tsunami rang the earth for 9 days

A new study named “A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days” was published in the Science journal, on September 12, which reveals the reason behind a strange 9-day vib...

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Retaining wall collapses onto cars in Vladivostok

Several videos have recently emerged, showing a retaining wall collapsing onto parked cars in the city of Vladivostok, Russia. Furthermore, the event took place shortly before 10 o'clock on the mo...

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Bentley Systems Announces the Finalists of the 2024 Going Digital Awards

Winners to be Announced on October 9 at Bentley’s 2024 Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards Event in Vancouver. Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineerin...

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Ensuring Tailings Pond Stability With RS2

Tailings ponds are critical components of mining operations and are engineered to contain the remnants of mined materials. As mines extract more resources, the volume of waste increases, and the pond...

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