FASCINATING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING NEWS IN 2016 |
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A total of 230 news were posted in Geoengineer.org’s News Center in 2016. (http://www.geoengineer.org)
Here is a compilation of the most fascinating news this year. News included: JANUARY -Fukushima Radioactivity Detected Off Coast of U.S., Canada. FEBRUARY -Debris Flow Recorded in Argentina. -Mosul Dam Engineers Warn It Could Fail at Any Time, Killing 1M People. -Landslide Elk City, Bret Edwards. MARCH -Huge Boulders Smash Into Buses as Passengers Escape to Safety -During Deadly Landslide, Kakakorum Highway, Pakistan. -Pile Dynamics Revolutionizes Shaft Inspection with the SQUID. APRIL -Moving 7 Million Cubic Yards - Calaveras Dam Replacement Project Timelapse. -World's Heaviest Monopile for Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation, Veja Mate offshore wind farm, Germany North Sea. MAY -Landslide at Myanmar Jane Mine Kills 12 and More are Missing. JUNE -Geologists Recreate 4800 Year Old Zion Landslide. -Gotthard Tunnel, World's Longest, Opens in Switzerland. JULY -Drivers Stop in Road to Avoid Landslide, Shangri-La, China. AUGUST -Earthquakes in Italy Leave 250 Dead. -Sinkhole Forms in Backyard of Ipswich Home. SEPTEMBER -Norway Proposes World's First Underwater Floating Tunnel. -Strengthen Existing Slabs Without Demolition, Using the CHANCE®Interior Slab Bracket by Hubbell. OCTOBER -Bridge Collapse in Indonesia Leaves 8 Dead. NOVEMBER -M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake Strikes New Zealand. -Sinkhole Destroys Five Lane Street in Fukuoka, Japan. DECEMBER -Tunnel Collapse, Yusufeli district of Erzurum, Turkey. -Expand your testing capacity with the new Geotechnical Elite series by Humboldt. Tune in daily to the Geoengineer.org News Center for the most interesting news in geotechnical engineering (http://www.geoengineer.org/news-center/news) . Contact us if you want your news to be included too! (http://www.geoengineer.org/contact-us) Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/www.geoengineer.org?ref=hl Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoengineerOrg Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geoengineer-org |