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Massive rock boulder may be the oldest remain of rockfall ever found

A massive rock boulder in Scotland may be part of the oldest rockfall ever found. The remains of rockfalls are not preserved for many years, therefore, it is challenging to document rockfall incident...

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Geotechnical Engineering finalists for the Year in Infrastructure 2020 by Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced the...

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GEO5 2020 Spring Update

Fine Software Spring Update brings more than 30 improvements across all GEO5 programs and introduces new engineering manuals. Make sure to visit their spring update page to download the new engineeri...

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Rockslide devastates a store in Alaska

A rockslide struck a grocery store in Alaska causing severe structural damage. The slide struck the Tatsuda's IGA store located in Ketchikan, a city in southeastern Alaska, on February 27, 2020. Curr...

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Submit your geotechnical project for the Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2020 Awards

The Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, to be held from October 12-15 in Vancouver Conversion Centre will conclude with the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards gala and ceremony, where the winners...

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Rockfall in New Zealand's road: One driver dead

A rock boulder detached from a slope near a road hitting a car and killing its driver in New Zealand. The incident occurred at about 1:50 pm local time on November 13, 2019, in the State Highway 6. T...

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Swiss Alps are destabilizing due to global warming

Rockfall incidents are starting to increase as a result of temperature rise and glacier melting in the Swiss Alps. Swiss Alps that are located south, south-east of Switzerland, create a mountainous t...

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Huge rockfall in Boulder Canyon triggered by blasting works

A huge rockfall caused by blasting works closed a highway located near Boulder, Colorado. The rockslide occurred on September 11, 2019. The scheduled blast was supposed to take down about 305 m3. How...

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What is geotechnical engineering? People in the streets answer

Let's see a wide range of answers about how common people perceive the term "geotechnics." Geotechnical engineering involves numerous scientific fields including soil and rock mechanics, hydrogeol...

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Earthquakes induced by injection wells

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz found that bigger and more distant earthquakes can occur when injecting fluid into sedimentary rock than into the underlying basement rock. The evidence from this study...

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