Geoengineer.org

News on Landslide

Paper documents failure at Payatas landfill in the Philippines that killed 330

A paper published by Jafari, Prof. Tim Stark and Prof. Scott Merry describes the conditions under which the ~30 m failure took place. The paper is part of Vol. 2 Issue 3 of the International Journal o...

Huge landslide at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine. Mine slope monitoring paid off.

 A landslide finally occurred at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.  The Kennecot Copper Bingham Canyon Mine is the second largest copper producer in the United States, provid...

Landslide in Whidbey Island, Washington, takes down one house, threatens more

A landslide has occurred at 4:15 am on Wednesday morning in Whidbey island. Nobody was killed, but the landslide took down one of the homes. Another home was left with a 10 ft backyard and is now evac...

Mudslide in Everett, Washington impacts and derails a passing freight train

The Associated Press has posted a video of a mudslide that on December 18th 2012 was mobilized while a freight train was passing. Amazing coincidence or did the vibrations from the train contributed t...

Waste Slide at a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill in the island of Zakynthos, Greece

Numerous news outlets in Greece report on Saturday the 26th of January, that a waste slide took place at the Municipal Solid Waste landfill of the island of Zakynthos in Greece. The slide took plac...