
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, here’s a big catch up list.
- Death toll from NW China landslide rises to 1,467 – Source: The Jakarta Post via USGS Landslide Events
- Is Natural Gas Drilling to Blame for Wyoming Town’s Undrinkable Water? – Source: Discover Magazine
An EPA report published Tuesday told residents near Pavillion, Wyoming to avoid drinking and cooking with well water after tests revealed petroleum hydrocarbons and other contaminants in 17 out of 19 wells near the town. Many residents worry that local drilling for natural gas is to blame. The EPA is still investigating. - GEI Consultants Promotes Seven – Source: High-Profile Blog
- ‘National tragedy’ in Guatemala as landslides kill dozens – Source: AFP
- Brazil government gives go-ahead for huge Amazon dam – Source: BBC News via Association of State Dam Safety Officials
- Corruption allegations overshadow work to rescue trapped Chilean miners – Source: m.NYPOST.com
- EPA plan would close S. Carolina dump sites – Source: Washington Post via Geosynthetica.net News
About 20 power company dump sites, some of which have leaked poisonous coal residue into groundwater, face closure in South Carolina under a federal plan to protect the environment from electric utility waste. - Three Drilling Plans to Rescue Miners in Chile – Source: Geology.com
- LNG Import Terminal Projects in US Abandoned – Source: Geology.com
Thanks to shale gas reserves. - 2011 Geo-Challenge Rules – Source: @GeoInstitute
- Google SketchUp 8 Released – Source: Google LatLong
- Guatemala landslides kill at least 44 – Source: UPI.com
- Major Buildings Show Little Damage After New Zealand’s Magnitude 7.1 Temblor – Source: ENR: Engineering News Record
- Partly completed Mega-Dairy in legal limbo with EPA and Karst Terrain – Source: TH via Geosynthetica.net News
- Amazing new rockfall video from Yosemite – Source: Dave’s Landslide Blog
Wow, this really is an amazing video. Highly recommended. - Flyover of New Zealand fault rupture trace – Source: Arizona Geology
- Impressive Debris Flow Video from Hunza, Pakistan – Source: Geology.com
- Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Updates free HIPERPAV III software – Source: Roads and Bridges
- How engineers overcame the challenges of making the Gotthard Base Tunnel – Source: swissinfo via ASCE SmartBrief
- Former Utahn files lawsuit over ’09 Logan Utah canal break – Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
- Former Utahn files lawsuit over ’09 Logan Utah canal break – Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
- Time-Lapse of the Christchurch Earthquake – Source: Google Maps Mania
- Man sues over Logan, Utah landslide that killed 2 children – Source: Deseret News
- Wrongful death suit filed over canal landslide deaths – Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
- Thames Tunnel: ‘super sewer’ plans unveiled – Source: The Guardian via ASCE SmartBrief
- Nucor’s iron plant in St. James Louisianna could employ 1,200 at its peak
- Seattle North Link Project Enters Final Design Stage – Source: TBM
- World’s First Geologic Hazards Facility Being Planned Near Buffalo, N.Y. – Source: University of Buffalo NewsCenter
- Drill hole reaches Chile miners – Source: Al Jazeera English
- Quakes ‘are an issue for London’ – Source: BBC News
Digging Toward the Light of Devil’s Slide Tunnel – Source: NBC Bay Area