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South Korea city hit by almost a metre of rain and deadly landslide

Torrential rain has triggered a deadly landslide in Geoje, South Korea, after the southern city received close to an entire summer's rainfall in a matter of days. At least one person died when mud and...

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Granada earthquake injures three and disrupts historic city sites

A shallow earthquake has struck southern Spain, injuring at least three people and damaging buildings in and around Granada. The tremor hit at 10:37 local time (08:37 GMT) on Tuesday, about 10 km sout...

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Century-old New York rail tunnel rebuilt after corrosive flood damage

Amtrak has reopened Line 2 of the East River Tunnel in New York, completing the first major phase of a $1.6bn rehabilitation programme on one of the busiest passenger rail tunnel systems in the Wester...

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Deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake leaves thousands displaced in Indonesia

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Indonesia’s Flores region, killing at least 53 people, injuring more than 100 and leaving thousands unable to return home. The shallow earthquake hit ear...

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PLAXIS 3D Study Finds Winged Piles Can Cut Uplift Settlement by Up to 95% in Sandy Soil

A PLAXIS 3D numerical study of under-reamed 'winged' piles in sandy soil has found that adding a wing near the pile tip can cut uplift-induced settlement by up to 95% compared with a conventional stra...

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Colombia declares national disaster after deadly magnitude 7.4 earthquake

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck western Colombia, causing widespread building collapse, damaging hospitals and airports, and triggering a national emergency. The death toll was still de...

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Europe’s record forest biomass loss comes with hidden risks for slopes, roads and drainage systems

Europe’s forests are losing above-ground biomass at an increasing rate, with a clear deterioration recorded since 2018. An ESA-supported study published in Nature Geoscience found that forest disturba...

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Ireland's climate risk is becoming a ground risk

Climate adaptation in Ireland can no longer be treated only as a flood defence or coastal protection issue. It is also a ground condition issue. Recent warnings from Mainmark Ireland point to a growin...

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Deep ventilation works mark progress on world-record subsea road tunnel

A second ventilation shaft has broken through on the E02 Kvitsøy section of Norway’s Rogfast Tunnel, marking another important underground milestone on what is planned to become the world’s longest an...

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Combining PLAXIS 2D and 3D Kept the Lueneburg Lock's Century Project Within 4 mm of Its Historic Neighbour

Engineers designing the new Lueneburg Lock in northern Germany used a deliberately complementary combination of PLAXIS 2D and PLAXIS 3D models, rather than a single large 3D model, to control a 30 m d...

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