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FASCINATING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING NEWS IN 2016
News Other Geotechnical 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
-Landslioid 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.
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