On May 8th, a landslide occurred at the site of a future hydropower plant in Taining county of the Fujian province in China; 41 workers were unaccounted for. The landslide occurred...
Read MoreGEER responds to the 2015 Kfarnabrakh rockslide, based on the message by Professor Chadi El Mohtar. Dear Geotech Colleagues, During the early hours of November 30th, 2015, the mountain town of Kfa...
Read MoreThe landslides were caused by the Gorkha 2015 earthquake. More than 20,000 landslides took place in Nepal during the Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake on April 25th 2015 . A youtube video describes the land...
Read MoreTrekkers Acagua in Argentina encounte red a debris flow in January, 2016. Julian Insarralde was the trek guide, and was aware that debris flows are common during this time of year. The landslide...
Read MoreIn March, 2014, 40 people perished in a landslide in Oso, Washington. Based on research from the University of Washington, many landslides in the same place may have occurred many times in the p...
Read MoreFewer landslides occurred as a result of the April, 2015 Nepal earthquake, termed Gorka than expected. The earthquake measured magnitudes of 7.5 Mw (moment magnitude scale) to 7.8 Mw. The...
Read MoreHundreds of rescue workers are searching for survivors after a manmade landfill failed and overcame 33 buildings and damaged utilities, including natural gas pipelines, in the southern Chinese City of...
Read MoreGeoengineer.org is delighted to invite you to Chania, Greece for the “1st International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure: Protection, Design, Rehabilitation” that takes place on 28-30...
Read MoreA massive rockslide occurred on December 7, 2015 in Hanogi in Mandi district of Himachal, India. The site conditions consist of a practically vertical rock face adjacent to a roadway running along...
Read MoreWithin less than 48 hrs following the Mw 6.4 earthquake that occurred near Lefkada island in Greece, on November 17th 2015, engineers from Geoengineer.org, the University of Michigan (USA) and the Uni...
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