In February of 2019 a rockslide on California SR-2, the Angeles Crest Highway, buried the road in 30 feet of rubble and closed the road indefinitely. Caltrans worked to clear the remaining landslide debris and […]
A large landslide occured on the hillside above a complex of apartment buildings last week, partially collapsing 3 buildings and killing at least 3 people and injuring more. Dave Petley of the Landslide Blog notes […]
GeoStabilization international helped Colorado DOT get highway 145 reopened after two massive rocks rolled down the slope cutting an 8 foot trench across both lanes. GSI had a team of scalers helicoptered up to the […]
This is a great video by Vermont DOT that describes how scaling is used as part of their mitigation efforts for rockfall. If you have never seen how high scaling works, this gives you a […]
A rockfall event has closed Colorado Highway 145 in the southwest portion of the state after two house-sized boulders destroyed the full width of the highway pavement. The event occurred on Friday before the Holiday […]
The latest Geobruug newsletter talked about the variety of rockfall mitigation solutions they have installed at the Kanmantoo open pit mine in Australia in recent years. Those include flexible rockfall barriers, anchored mesh, rockfall attenuators, […]
Sumner Road in Christchurch, New Zealand is a critical infrastructure link between Christchurch, the Port of Lyttleton, and the communities of Sumner and Lyttelton. It was severely damaged in the 2010-2011 earthquakes that struck the […]
The Philippines was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on April 22, 2019 and there is some interesting video of high-rise buildings swaying and of water from a rooftop pool cascading down to the ground. […]
A dashcam video caught a near miss with a huge boulder in the Taroko Gorge in Eastern Taiwan on April 18, 2019. The rockfall was triggered by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in the area, you […]
The American Geosciences Institute is hosting a webinar on Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm EDT. In this webinar, experts in landslide characterization, mapping, and risk reduction discuss landslide impacts […]
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