Teenage Girl Buried Alive in Beach Bluff Landslide
Failures
TVA Coal Ash Disaster
On December 22 of 2008, there was a massive failure of a fly ash landfill (tailings dam?) at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston power plant. The failure caused a torrent of coal ash sludge […]
Geologic Hazards
Landslide Tracking Using Social Media
Some clever researchers have devised an algorithm to collect information on landslides occurring around the world by analyzing social media posts. They use a variety of search terms to flag a post as being potentially […]
Failures
Is the Bingham Canyon copper mine landslide the most expensive single mass movement in history?
Dr. Dave has some financial analysis of the Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide in Utah. His interpretation of some of the financial data being thrown around is a financial loss of $770M, ouch! [Source: Read the […]