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Submarine Internet cables can monitor seismic activity and predict earthquakes
- May, 27, 2022
- Oil & Gas Offshore Geotechnics Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Gerasimos Livieratos
A wide network of submarine cables could be used to detect earthquakes and tsunamis or monitor how climate change alters ocean currents. These telecoms cables could be used as a giant array of deep...
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Peru earthquake: 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes in Peru
- May, 26, 2022
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Gerasimos Livieratos
The quake struck at around 7.02am local time in the Tirapata region and was located 8.1 miles (13km) east-southeast of Azangaro. The epicenter was considered as deep, at around 135.3 miles (217.8km...
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Earthquake in Peru's central coast shakes buildings in Lima
- May, 13, 2022
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Engineering Seismology
- Authored by: Gerasimos Livieratos
The Peruvian Navy’s Hydrography and Navigation Directorate ruled out that the earthquake caused a tsunami. However, it is recommended that citizens stay alert. On Thursday, a 5.5 magnitude earthquak...
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Open Online Course on "Seismology to Earthquake Engineering", offered by École Polytechnique - IP Paris
- Dec, 08, 2021
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Engineering Seismology Soil Dynamics News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: George Zalachoris
École Polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique Paris is offering a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled Seismology to Earthquake Engineering. You can find more and enroll in this MOOC for free...
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Volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands triggers evacuations
- Sep, 19, 2021
- Other Geotechnical Earthquake Reconnaissance News On Natural Disasters / Failures Engineering Seismology
- Spain
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A volcanic eruption on La Palma, an island of the Canary Islands, Spain, has caused significant infrastructure damage and triggered massive evacuations. La Palma is one of the smallest islands in the...
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Two powerful earthquakes hit China: Reports of 3 people dead
- May, 21, 2021
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Landslides News On Natural Disasters / Failures Engineering Seismology
- China, Dali
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Two separate, strong earthquakes that struck in China have resulted in, at least, 3 fatalities. The 2 seismic shocks occurred within a 5 hour time period on May 21, 2021. The first one (M 6.1) struck...
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Marsquakes detected by NASA's InSight Mission
- Mar, 07, 2021
- News On Research / Academia Geology Highlights Engineering Seismology Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
NASA's InSight Mars Lander has recently retrieved clear data of two relatively strong quakes that occurred on the Red Planet. The InSight Lander was launched in 2018 and successfully landed on Mars t...
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62,163 paper downloads in 2020 for the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories!
- Jan, 13, 2021
- Other Geotechnical News On Publications Dam Engineering Data Management Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Energy Geotechnics Engineering Geology Forensics Erosion Foundation Design / Construction Geo-Energy Geoenvironmental Engineering Geomatics Geomorphology Geophysics Geosynthetics Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Ground Improvement Green Infrastructure Groundwater & Seepage Instrumentation Landslides Laboratory Testing Levees Mining Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Offshore Geotechnics Railway Geotechnics Ports Residual Soils Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Risk & Reliability Rock Mechanics Slope Stability Soil Dynamics Soil Mechanics Structural Geology Underground Structures Tunneling Engineering Seismology Visualization Transportation Geotechnics News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering CaseHistories is proud to announce that 62,163 papers were downloaded in 2020. The International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories is an off...
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Monitoring the temperature of oceans via Seismic Ocean Thermometry
- Oct, 18, 2020
- Instrumentation Engineering Seismology News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), U.S. and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, have developed a new method to derive the temperature of oceans via earthquake wav...
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Human-induced seismic activity significantly reduced due to COVID-19 pandemic
Findings from a new study suggest that human-induced seismic noise has been reduced as a result of COVID-19 measures. The research which was published on July 23, 2020 in Science, suggests that th...
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