What Would a Large Earthquake Do to Downtown L.A.?

In a previous post, I described the planned demolition of a high-rise condo development on South Padre Island in Texas because of 16-in or more of settlement. This video from YouTube (SouthPadreParade is the username) […]

The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association has released Version 1.0 of their report for the November 30, 2018, M7.0 Anchorage Earthquake. The GEER Phase I team collaborated closely with a number of other agencies […]

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 […]