A spectacular landslide/pit slope failure was caught on video in a marble quarry in the Orhaneli district of Bursa. The failure happened on March 13, 2019 (as far as I can tell), and fortunately, there […]
A Tennesee man was killed after his vehicle encountered a landslide and his truck rolled 200 feet down an embankment slope. The landslide occurred around 2am on February 21st, 2019 on Highway 70N in Hawkins […]
NHAZCA (Natural HAZards Control and Assessment) is a Spin-off Company of Sapienza University of Rome, an international leader in the analysis and monitoring of natural hazards and large infrastructures for the management and mitigation of […]
There is not much detail here, but the debris flow video of a truck getting swept off the road is pretty amazing to watch. The video notes that it occurred sometime this month in the […]
The City of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has recently started a nearly $1M landslide remediation project on the City’s north side, but it is only one of nearly 20 landslide sites affecting public rights of way being monitored […]
The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association has released Version 1.0 of their report for the November 30, 2018, M7.0 Anchorage Earthquake. The GEER Phase I team collaborated closely with a number of other agencies […]
Some mountain climbers got the scare of their life when a huge, tabular boulder came flying down the mountain and barely missed striking the cameraman and then another person. It occurred at the base camp for […]
Fears of another landslide and possible tsunami are mounting for the Anak Krakatoa volcano in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia. Scientists with Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) have discovered new cracks that could be […]
Until recently, scientists were puzzled why an earthquake of only 7.5 magnitude caused a devastating tsunami that killed over 2,000 people on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia in September of 2018. The earthquake didn’t […]
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck just 8 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska this morning causing widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure. The quake struck at 8:29 am local time and the focus of the earthquake […]
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