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9 April 2019
Eco-Safe Roads – resources to guide construction
A consortium has produced a very useful guide to the design and construction of eco-safe rural roads in high mountain areas
11 March 2019
A video of a small but spectacular rockslide from Uttarakhand
A video has been posted onto Youtube showing a reasonably small but undeniably spectacular rockslide in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas
3 February 2017
Helicopter sluicing of the Kaikoura landslides
In New Zealand, the authorities are using helicopter sluicing to remove loose material from landslides and unstable slopes after the Kaikoura earthquake
11 September 2014
Lurching ground and bouncing bridges in the Napa earthquake
My rides along Amtrak California’s Capitol Corridor now include an eerie stretch where they pass the site at which the highest ground motions in the Napa earthquake were recorded mere weeks ago. Just at the south abutments of the I-80 bridges over the Carquinez Strait, where the Union Pacific tracks pass through the C&H refinery, a shallow borehole seismometer recorded an acceleration of 0.99g, nearly the full force of gravity lurching soil and …
