Pittsburgh Area Has 49 Active Landslides

Some juicy geoengineering news items in this post. I could turn just about all of them into a separate blog post if I had time, maybe I still will for some of them. Don’t miss this list! All of the links are active when you view it on the site. If you’re looking at this in your RSS feed reader or on your daily email, you won’t see the actual links, sorry.

• San Diego settles landslide suits for $284,000 – San Jose Mercury News
• Slip On Weak Layer – GEO-SLOPE International Ltd.
  An example analysis using SLOPE/W software.
• UK’s first commercial scale geothermal power plant set to start construction in October – Ground Engineering (GE) Magazine
• Some reflections on the Eyjafjallajoekull ash cloud – Dave’s Landslide Blog
  As usual, Dr. Dave has some great insights into this geologic hazard that is currently dominating the news.
• Port of Miami tunnel project on track for June start – MiamiHerald.com via ASCE SmartBrief
• Louisiana receives $81.5 million in new federal aid for repair of roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Katrina – NOLA.com
• New imagery from the Qinghai earthquake | Google Earth Blog
• Geogrids remedy poor site soils at World Cup stadium in South Africa – Geosynthetics Magazine
• Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance of the February 27, 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake, Version 1: April 15, 2010 – Geoengineer.org Press Center
  The GEER is an NSF-funded group that was created to collect perishable data in the wake of extreme events (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, or floods) in the interests of learning from the events to advance the state of geoengineering practice. This report on the earthquake was produced by over 40 lead authors and contributing authors from universities and consulting companies around the world.
• A Decade of Safety Success, March/April 2010 Public Roads

…And 13 more! […]

This is definitely the season for landslides, mudslides, debris flows and other mayhem in Oregon and elsewhere in the pacific northwest. It seems like every time I turn around there is another Google Alert in my inbox about a landslide related issue in that area. Having a hard time keeping up with it all, I decided to try something new. Click through to see a map of automatically updated landslide news in Oregon. Lets call it a Beta…so we’ll see if it works out. If it does, maybe I’ll try something similar for other areas or other items that tend to make it into the news. (Photo by Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian)

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