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Landslide or snow melt causes retaining wall failure that kills one motorist on Austrian Autobahn

Fatal retaining wall failure in Austria

April 12, 2012 rockman Comments Off

A retaining wall failed along the A13 autobahn in Schonberg, Austria. Few details are available at this point, but the wall did fall onto a passing truck, killing the driver. Snowmelt was likely a factor […]

Hi-tech Snow Depth Measurements with GPR

September 11, 2007 rockman Comments Off

A Canadian geophysics company, Sensors and Software, Inc. has come up with a new (at least to me anyway) application for ground penetrating radar or GPR. Their SnowScan hardware and software system allows ski resorts […]