At least 167 people died in landslides and floods after Tropical Storm Megi devastated Philippines last Sunday. Furthermore 110 people are missing and 1.9 million have been adversely affected, the na...
Read MoreAt least 11 people have been killed and a dozen injured following a landslide in a mining area in northwest Colombia, authorities reported on Thursday. An "unspecified" number of people remain miss...
Read MoreNominations are now open for the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure If you used PLAXIS, OpenGround, or GeoStudio to tackle a complex geotechnical project, you can win a trip to London and...
Read MoreTwo members of a British family have died and two others are critically injured from a landslide while they were hiking on holiday in Australia. The man, 49, and his 9 year old son were killed by fal...
Read MoreTorrential rains have triggered flash floods and landslides across Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, killing at least 8 people including six children and leaving 13 missing, authorities said on Saturday...
Read MoreAt least four fatalities after heavy rain in southern Ecuador triggered floods and landslides in Azuay Province on 27 March 2022. Floods and landslides pushed rocks and debris onto the small commun...
Read MoreA major landslide struck a community in Peru’s north. Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least two people, including a one-month-old infant, as they continue to search for missing residen...
Read MoreThree people are feared buried alive, while two more were rescued in a landslide incident in Taman Bukit Permai 2, Ampang in which 15 homes and 10 cars were affected. Selangor Fire and Rescue Depar...
Read MoreRescue operations at the White Stone quarry near Madahalli of Gundlupet taluk in Chamarajanagar district, where a landslide occurred on Friday, revealed three deaths. On Saturday, the body of Ha...
Read Moreby Reginald Hammah, Ph.D. Introduction Seventeen years ago, in 2004, we wrote a RocNews article outlining our perspectives on the Shear Strength Reduction (SSR) technique of slope stability analysis....
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