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News on faults
An active fault zone poses a threat for infrastructure in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Jun, 03, 2021
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Utah, Salt Lake City
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
According to a new study, a complex fault system beneath Salt Lake City can pose a severe threat to infrastructure if it is activated during an earthquake. Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah with...
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Large sinkhole opens in Mexico near a house
- May, 30, 2021
- Landslides News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Mexico, Santa María Zacatepec
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A massive sinkhole that threatens a house suddenly emerged in Mexico. The sinkhole opened in a field near the Santa Maria Zacatepec, a town situated in the state of Puebla, southern Mexico. Its geome...
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New AI method to detect microearthquakes
- Dec, 07, 2020
- Earthquake Reconnaissance News On Research / Academia
- United States, California , Stanford
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Scientists from Stanford University and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, introduce a new Artificial Intelligence technique to detect small-scale earthquakes. Despite the radical...
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Earthquakes triggered by landslides
- Jul, 02, 2020
- Landslides Seismic Slope Stability Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering News On Research / Academia
- Taiwan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
It is widely known that earthquakes can trigger disastrous landslides but, what about the opposite? Can landslides trigger earthquakes? Earthquakes are triggering factors that can activate slope inst...
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What controls the height of the world's mountains?
A new study comes to answer an interesting question. What determines the height of the earth's mountains? Mountains are formed as a result of plate tectonics, the theory that describes the movement o...
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