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Nigerian community threatened by intense ground erosion
A village in southern Nigeria is threatened as soil erosion has caused severe issues. People have started abandoning their residences while farming and other land activities have been paused. A loca...
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Robotic solutions for sheet piling
A team of robot engineers at Harvard's Wyss Institute has developed a robot that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil. Sheet piles are driven vertically into the soil form...
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Cliff collapse in Fort Funston, San Francisco: One woman trapped
- Feb, 25, 2019
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Erosion
- Fort Funston Rd, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
On February 22, 2019, a cliff at Fort Funston, San Francisco, collapsed burying one person under the rubble. Two women were walking up the cliff when it gave it. The first one was rescued imm...
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Lake dam in Texas on the edge of collapsing
Prestonwood Lake Dam, located in the city of Arlington, Texas, appears to be close to failure. According to reports, the dam suffered erosion due to recent rainfalls and its spillway is about to co...
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Florence hurricane may cause erosion in Southeast Atlantic beaches
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) models predict that Florence Hurricane can cause beach erosion along 3/4 of North Carolina among other areas. Florence, a Category 4 hurricane, can provoke landfalls a...
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An enormous sinkhole opened up in New Zealand, revealing an ancient volcano underneath
Sinkholes aren't rare in the area, but this one is especially large, geologists say A sinkhole 20m (66 feet) deep and 200m (660ft) long opened up last week on a daily farm in the town of Rotorua, N...
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Texas beaches likely to erode, be overwashed, or inundated by Hurricane Harvey
- Aug, 27, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Erosion
- Texas, United States
USGS Coastal Change Forecast model predictions indicate that Hurricane Harvey is likely to cause significant beach erosion along the Texas coastline, with water overtopping dunes and in some cases inu...
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Damage to California’s Oroville Dam forces mass evacuation under the threat of flooding
- Feb, 13, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Erosion
- Oroville Dam, Oroville, CA, United States
Almost 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area around Oroville, California on Sunday afternoon, after erosion caused damage in both spillways of America's tallest dam at Lake Oroville. The...
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Hotel collapses after heavy rain in Peru (video)
- Jan, 31, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Erosion Erosion Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Erosion Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters
- Lircay District, Huancavelica, Peru
La Hacienda hotel collapsed into Sicra River in the Peruvian town of Lircay, on January 26, 2017, due to foundation erosion caused by the heavy rains that hit the region. According to the Civil Def...
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Sinkhole Destroys Five Lane Street in Fukuoka, Japan (Video)
On Tuesday, November 8th, two small sinkholes formed beneath a 5 lane street in Fukuoka, Japan. The sinkholes grew in size until they combined into a single large sinkhole measuring 30 meters (98 f...
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