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China Flooding and Landslides – Three Gorges Dam Being Tested

August 3, 2010 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on China Flooding and Landslides – Three Gorges Dam Being Tested

China has been getting pounded recently by heavy rains and flooding. Here are a few stories I’ve come across in this department. Three Gorges Dam flooding turns deadly; dozens missing in China – Source: CSMonitor.com […]

The landslide emjoji is part of Unicode 17.0 and will be included in iOS 26.4 (also Hairy Creature, Orca, Fight Cloud, and Distorted Face...and a few others)
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Landslide Emoji Coming to iOS 26.4

March 23, 2026 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on Landslide Emoji Coming to iOS 26.4

Geo-engineers rejoice: The landslide emoji is coming in the next major iOS update! The emoji showing a mountain with several rocks falling down it was one of a handful of new emojis announced by Apple […]

Helicopter sledgehammer used to scale loose rocks from a cliff in Norway.
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Video: Helicopter Based Rock Scaling “Sledgehammer”

October 1, 2009 rockman Geologic Hazards 3

[Updated May 26, 2011] A new, cleaner, longer version of the video has surfaced on YouTube recently.  You can see it embedded below.  It includes some footage of attempts to "water bomb" the rock loose […]