On March 28, 2025, a devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar, shaking the region from its tectonic roots and leaving over 2,700 dead. Centered just 10 km beneath Mandalay and spanning a r...
Read MoreOn December 17, 2024, the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was rocked by a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake. Centered approximately 30 kilometers west of the capital city, Port Vila, the quake...
Read MoreAs cities expand, so does the need for robust disaster management, especially in earthquake-prone areas. Liquefaction—a process where saturated soils lose their strength and behave like a liquid unde...
Read MoreThe primary geotechnical challenge affecting the project area is liquefaction, which leads to the loss of soil strength during seismic activity. Therefore, the decision was made to employ the Geopier...
Read MoreTaiwan was hit by a 7.4 moment magnitude earthquake at 7:58 a.m. local time on the morning of Wednesday, April 3, 2024, which makes it the strongest the nation has experienced in the past 25 years....
Read MoreA powerful earthquake, with a measured moment magnitude of Mw = 7.5, struck Japan on January 1, 2024, causing widespread destruction, mainly on the Noto Peninsula, while a tsunami with a height of mo...
Read MoreMorecambe Bay is the United Kingdom’s largest expanse of intertidal sandflats and mudflats, located in northwest England, and home to some treacherous quicksand. Furthermore, Morecambe Bay accommoda...
Read MoreNorSand is an advanced constitutive material model utilizing Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM), a concept also used in the Modified Cam Clay model. Srinivas Vivek Bokkisa and Jorge Macedo from Ge...
Read MoreA Local First Nation Indigenous company in Canada has announced its licensing agreement with an engineering firm on the production, installation, sales, and training services of spring drains. The...
Read MoreThe following special lectures were given at the context of Geo-Congress 2022 (Charlotte, North Carolina | March 20-23 2022). All lectures can be found in the media gallery below. Karl Terzaghi Lect...
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