Landslide Blocks Road in LA, Inconveniences UCLA Hoops Fans

The world famous archaeological site, Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes Mountains may be at risk from landslides. A paper published by three Japanese researchers describes their field work and instrumentation of the site and their analyses. Read on for more info. (Photo by Jungle_Boy) 

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Some friends at NHAZCA S.r.l. in Rome, Drs. Serena Moretto and Paolo Mazzanti, have been demonstrating their company’s technology to use satellite imagery to produce highly accurate displacement measurements and maps. Serena recently posted a […]

This is definitely the season for landslides, mudslides, debris flows and other mayhem in Oregon and elsewhere in the pacific northwest. It seems like every time I turn around there is another Google Alert in my inbox about a landslide related issue in that area. Having a hard time keeping up with it all, I decided to try something new. Click through to see a map of automatically updated landslide news in Oregon. Lets call it a Beta…so we’ll see if it works out. If it does, maybe I’ll try something similar for other areas or other items that tend to make it into the news. (Photo by Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian)

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