A powerful earthquake hit the Philippines today at 8:14 UTC, measuring a 6.7 (Mw) magnitude. The earthquake was initially estimated to have a magnitude of up to 7.2 and was later reviewed by the Uni...
Read MorePart of an under-construction tunnel in India caved in during the early hours of Sunday, November 12, trapping 40 workers inside. Furthermore, the incident took place at 5.30 a.m. local time, in the...
Read MoreA new island can be seen being created from an underwater volcano erupting off the coast of Japan, during the past few weeks. Furthermore, the unnamed volcano started erupting on the 21st of October,...
Read MoreA collaboration between NASA and University of Hawaii’s Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) was recently made public on October 26, regarding NASA’s Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness mo...
Read MoreRepair work carried out on a railway embankment near Braybrooke, England, caused train service disruption on England’s Midland Main Line between Kettering and Leicester, between November 2 and Novemb...
Read MoreIt was recently announced by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) that the 62nd Ranking Lecture will take place on the 13th of March 2024, at Imperial College London. As was made known in Marc...
Read MoreThe moment that a small collapse occurred at the flank of Colombia’s popular tourist attraction, El Peñón de Guatapé, on November 2, was caught on video. Furthermore, El Peñón de Guatapé is an appro...
Read MoreDr. Paul W. Mayne recently gave the 14th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering on October 4, which took place in Athens, Greece, and was titled "Geotechnical Site Characterization Using Shear...
Read MoreA new paper titled “Cascading events during the 1650 tsunamigenic eruption of Kolumbo volcano” was published on the 26th of October in the Nature Communications journal. Kolumbo is an underwater vol...
Read MoreBangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, South Asia’s first underwater tunnel, was officially inaugurated on Saturday, October 28, with the Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, being the first...
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