Midwest Flooding – Collection of Links
Press Releases
ARkStorm: California’s other ‘Big One’
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For emergency planning purposes, scientists unveiled a hypothetical California scenario that describes a storm that could produce up to 10 feet of rain, cause extensive flooding (in many cases overwhelming the state’s […]
Failures
Coal Mining Company Ordered to pay $21M for Causing Crack in Pennsylvania Dam
In July of 2005, cracks began forming in the concrete dam that created Duke Lake in Ryerson Station State Park in Pennsylvania that required officials to drain the 62-acre lake. The state’s Department of Environmental […]
Geologic Hazards
Oso landslide: differences of opinion about the landslide mechanisms
Professor Petley, the author of the Landslide Blog, has an interesting discussion about a controversy in the geoengineering / geology community regarding the Oso landslide in Washington State. The Geotechnical Engineering Extreme Events Reconaissance (or […]