Weekend CUP
Weekend CUP May 13, 2010
Massive Flood Hits Nashville – CE News Taiwan No.3 Freeway cleared after landslide but still 20 days to reopening – Taiwan News Online EPA Moves on Proposed New Rule For Coal Ash – ENR: Engineering […]
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Weekend CUP
Weekend CUP May 3, 2010
Pomona Landslide Fear: Landslide Fear Shuts Down Part of 10 Freeway in Pomona – KTLA What caused Richmond sinkhole? Answer may lie in steel culvert pipe below – ContraCostaTimes.com via ASCE SmartBrief Natural disasters as […]
Geologic Hazards
Landslide Covers Freeway, Kills at Least 4 in Taiwan
Last Sunday, April 25, 2010 a major landslide covered a 300-m plus stretch of Taiwan’s National Freeway No. 3, killing at least 4 people and burying three cars and destroying a bridge. The estimated volume […]
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Taiwan Highway 3 Landslide
Taiwan Higway 3 Landslide Massive landslide covers Taiwan freeway, kills at least 4. {!jomcomment}{addthis off}
Available Resources
New Geologic Map of California and Fault Activity Map of California Published
These geologic maps just released from the California Geologic Survey mark the 150th anniversary of the CGS. They can be viewed online in a very easy to use Google Maps interface. The previous Geologic Map […]
Geologic Hazards
Mt. Soledad Landslide Lawsuit Finally Settled by City of San Diego
A nearly three year battle between homeowners affected by the 2007 landslide on Mt. Soledad Road in a La Jolla neighborhood is now over. I first blogged about this event shortly after it happened as […]
Weekend CUP
Weekend CUP April 26, 2010
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! […]
Standards and Codes
ASTM Updates April 2010
Standards governing the testing of tensile strength of geogrid and geotextile tensile strength are among the standards updated over the past month by the ASTM. This includes a new standard for "Determining Small-Strain Tensile Properties of Geogrids and Geotextiles by In-Air Cyclic Tension Tests". A number of standards relating to concrete including capping of concrete cyllinders for testing have also been updated. Click through for the list.
Geologic Hazards
What Makes a Sinkhole a Sinkhole?
The Florida Geological Survey probably deals with more sinkholes than most agencies. The most frequent geologic cause of sinkholes is dissolution of limestone and other soluble rocks and the collapse of the soil cover over […]
Weekend CUP
Weekend CUP for April 20, 2010
New images of the Attabad landslide – Dave’s Landslide Blog Southern California Quake Damaged Treatment and Storage Infrastructure – ENR: Engineering News Record Eyewitness Account of Chile Devastation in COPRI Blog – ASCE Team in […]