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EV's: Driving Demand for Lithium

I’m sure in recent weeks you’ve opened your favourite news source and seen a headline mentioning Electric or Hybrid cars. Whether it’s news about Tesla’s latest factory or governmental policies aimed...

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Around 1000 destructive landslides in Auckland as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle

A geologist has called for a priority study of the city's vulnerability and risk, while an Auckland Council engineer estimates that recent storms have caused about 1000 landslides that have affected...

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UB earthquake engineers: building collapses in the Turkey-Syria earthquake were not unexpected

A scene, shown in various videos, was taken following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors that devastated central Türkiye and northern Syria earlier this week and the pictures are hor...

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More than 20000 fatalities after Turkey-Syria earthquake

At least 20,000 people have now died as a result of the earthquakes that struck southwest Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. This number is expected to rise as rescue workers search through the deb...

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GeoWorld reaches 30,000+ members!

GeoWorld, the largest online professional networking site for geotechnical engineers and associated fields, has now reached 30,000+ active members listed from the worldwide community! GeoWorld was...

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Rocscience | Slide3's New Search Surface Type & Fast Weak Layer Algorithm

The search process for the critical slip surface typically involves two stages: In our extensive testing of hundreds of Slide3 models, Spline outperformed ellipsoid in 80% of cases. Owing to the supe...

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Fehmarnbelt Tunnel: The longest underwater rail and road tunnel in the world will connect Germany and Denmark

An 18-kilometer underwater tunnel will soon connect Germany and Denmark. It should be mentioned that when it is finished, in 2029, the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be the longest combined rail and road tu...

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Powerful quake hits southern Turkey and Syria

Around 4 a.m. on Monday, one of the largest earthquakes in a century to hit south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, jolted locals out of their beds and sent tremors as far as Lebanon and Israel...

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Sinkhole outside home in Huntington Station, on Long Island: 3 fall into

On Long Island, a woman fell into a sinkhole as she was leaving her house, and two other people also fell in while attempting to rescue her. The hole was six feet across and six feet down. According...

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Important news about HoleBASE product support effective January 1st 2023

We are writing this article today to inform you of some upcoming changes to HoleBASE product support. Since HoleBASE’s launch in 2011, it has provided geotechnical data management and log production ...

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