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HomeNewsGeologic HazardsAerial footage of Italian Rockfall Event

Aerial footage of Italian Rockfall Event

February 20, 2014 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Aerial footage of Italian Rockfall Event

The remarkable story of the bus-sized boulders that rolled through an Italian farm at the beginning of February now has some amazing aerial video footage to go with it. Check it out.

[Source: YouTube via AEG Insider. Image: YouTube]

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A massive rockslide closed a busy interstate route last week near the border between Tennessee and North Carolina in Pigeon River Gorge. This area has had landslide problems in the past. In 1997 a rockslide in the same area closed the freeway for approximately 3 months. (Photo from Landslides Under a Microscope Blog, original source not cited)

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A 5,000 cubic meter rockfall is seen on cell phone video enveloping a 420 year old Italian church in dust, but the church and its bell tower miraculously escaped serious damage.  The Santuario di Gallivaggio (Sanctuary […]

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Frame grabs from a video of a rockslide on US Highway 64 in the Ocoee River gorge in Tennessee on November 10, 2009
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Video: Rockslide on U.S. Highway 64 in Tennessee

November 11, 2009 rockman Geologic Hazards 1

Amazing video of a rockslide as it happened yesterday along U.S. Highway 64 in the Ocoee River gorge in Tennessee. TDOT crews had almost finished removing rockslide debris from an event earlier in the day when a second slide occurred, blocking the road again. That looks like a pretty planar joint set dipping right into the roadway and everything was wet from the recent rains. Click through for the video.

Frame grabs from a video of a rockslide on US Highway 64 in the Ocoee River gorge in Tennessee on November 10, 2009

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