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[ December 10, 2019 ] Giant Rockfall Crushes House in Les Mees, France Geologic Hazards
[ December 10, 2019 ] Landslide Brings Down Bridge in Italy’s A6 Motorway Failures
[ November 19, 2019 ] NCFI Geotechnical Products Receive NSF/ANSI 61 Certification for Safe Use in/Around Drinking Water or Water Sources News
[ November 19, 2019 ] Video: RAPID CPT Processor for HoleBASE SI News
[ November 19, 2019 ] 2019 Peck Lecture, Misko Cubrinovsky – Observations and Findings from Christchurch Available Resources

Giant Rockfall Crushes House in Les Mees, France

December 10, 2019 rockman 0

A house was completely crushed by a massive rockfall that is more of a cliff collapse than a proper rockfall. The event occurred on December 2, 2019 in the village of Les Mees, Alpes de […]

A6 motorway bridge destroyed by a landslide or debris flow in Italy

Landslide Brings Down Bridge in Italy’s A6 Motorway

December 10, 2019 rockman 0

Heavy rain triggered a landslide or debris flow that destroyed a 30-meter span of a bridge on the A6 motorway between Savona and Turin on November 25. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries or […]

WV Trout Hachery Uses TerraThane geotechnical polyurethane

NCFI Geotechnical Products Receive NSF/ANSI 61 Certification for Safe Use in/Around Drinking Water or Water Sources

November 19, 2019 rockman 0

MOUNT AIRY, NC—Three of NCFI’s geotechnical polyurethane materials, TerraThane 24-003, 24-010, and 24-042, now carry the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard 61 certification for safe use in and around […]

Video: RAPID CPT Processor for HoleBASE SI

November 19, 2019 rockman 0

Dataforensics RAPID CPT Processor for HoleBASE SI is now available. You can now import CPT data from more than 32 different CPT manufacturer file formats directly into HoleBASE. No more manipulation of the raw data […]

2019 Peck Lecture, Misko Cubrinovsky – Observations and Findings from Christchurch

November 19, 2019 rockman 0

Dr. Misko Cubrinovsky was the Ralph B. Peck Award winner at the 2019 Geo-Congress conference of the Geo-Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His lecture was on Observations and Findings from Christchurch related to the devastating 2011 […]

OpenGround - The future of geotechnical software at Bentley?

Bentley’s Previews OpenGround at Year in Infrastructure Conference

November 8, 2019 rockman 0

Bentley has been on the radar for geotechnical professionals lately with their recent acquisition of Keynetix, the makers of HoleBASE SI. All of us have been eagerly awaiting the next moves in how the company […]

Fine software's Stratigraphy program, part of the GEO5 geotechnical software suite

GEO5 2020 Software Update

November 8, 2019 rockman 0

The GEO5 geotechnical software by GeoPrac.net Sponsor Fine Software just announced it’s annual update. GEO5 2020 adds new annotation capabilities to all of it’s various programs in the suite. They have also added new features […]

Terracon and Girl Scouts Of NE Kansas And NW Missouri Partner for Live Steam Event Nov. 8

November 8, 2019 rockman 0

OLATHE, Kan. – Terracon Consultants, Inc., and Girl Scouts of NE Kansas and NW Missouri (GSKSMO) announce they have partnered to present the first LIVE STEAM event at Union Station’s Science City in Kansas City, Mo., on […]

Video: Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years Later

October 17, 2019 rockman 0

October 17, 1989 at around 5 pm, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake known as the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area causing significant damage and loss of life. Many remember the fact that […]