Devil’s Slide Tunnel Update and First Attempts to Tame the Landslide
Failures
Homeowners Can’t Nail Builder for Landslide
A federal judge ruled that the property owners can’t sue Pulte homes for the failure of a retaining wall and a subsequent slope movement (they refer to it as a landslide). The failure occurred in […]
Geologic Hazards
Rockfall in Yosemite causes hotel evacuation of all 300 guests
A landslide in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday damaged three cars in the parking lot of the Ahwahnee Hotel and left rocks, one the size of two SUV’s in the parking lot. Park officials evacuated […]
Geologic Hazards
Underwater landslide may have doubled 2011 Japanese tsunami
A seismologist at the University of Tokyo believes that the monstrous tsunami that was responsible for so much damage and loss of life during the 2011 Fukushima earthquake may have been a result of a […]