Chaiten Volcano, Chile
Geologic Hazards
Chile Earthquake Links – March 1, 2010
A few interesting links related to the Chile Earthquake. Over the next days and weeks, I will try to highlight interesting news and blog posts related to this event. Chile Earthquake: Soft ground bites the […]
Miscellaneous
Movie About Dramatic Drilling and Rescue of 33 Chilean Miners
This is pretty cool! It’s not every day that you have a major Hollywood motion picture that features drillers as the unlikely heroes! The movie ‘The 33" stars some big names like Antonio Banderas, Lou […]
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 […]