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SF Gate   01 June 2017   United States   Americas  
<p>Nine workers were injured Friday when a building partially collapsed at an Oakland construction site near downtown, forcing a desperate and successful effort to free many of them from wet concrete.</p><p>No workers were seriously injured in the collapse, ...
<p>Some longtime residents of Big Sur figured nature hadn’t finished with them this year. Over the weekend, they were proved right.</p><p>With a loud boom and a cloud of dust, part of a mountainside slid into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night, swallowing ...
WKYT.com   31 March 2017   United States   Americas  
<p>Whitley County lost one of their own Thursday, a man who died earning his living to take care of those he cared most about.</p><p>Kentucky officials are saying that Partin began his shift about 5pm on Wednesday evening. He was performing maintenance work ...
<p>A major fire has led to a bridge collapse on an interstate highway in the US state of Georgia.</p><p>The fire is believed to have been caused by burning of piles of electrical wiring under the bridge.</p><p>State governor Nathan Deal declared a state of ...
<p>The first images have been released of a prototype track intended to provide the first full-scale testing of Hyperloop transportation technology.</p> <p>Hyperloop One is building a functional test system in the USA&rsquo;s Nevada desert and is aiming to ...
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<p>Ferrovial has won a US$192m contract to expand a section of US 281 in Texas, USA.</p> <p>The project Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) covers a 13km section of the highway in the San Antonio metropolitan area.</p> <p>Work will be carried out by ...
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The Guardian   20 February 2017   United States   Americas  
<p>San Joaquin river approaches flood stage as water level decreases at Lake Oroville dam after evacuations of 188,000 people last weekend.</p> <p>Residents returning to homes damaged by flooding should be prepared to evacuate again as yet another powerful ...
Los Angeles Times   14 February 2017   United States   Americas  
<p>Santa Monica is poised to require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in what would be the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort.</p><p>Santa Monica’s safety rules would go beyond what Los Angeles has done ...
BBC NEWS   13 February 2017   United States   Americas  
<p class="story-body__introduction">More than 180,000 people in northern California have been told to evacuate their homes after an overflow channel at the tallest dam in the US was weakened by heavy rainfall.</p><p>The emergency spillway of the 770 ft (230m) ...
Metabunk.org   11 February 2017   United States   Americas  
<p>On Feb 8th 2017, the spillway of the Oroville dam in Northern California failed after a 150ft wide hole formed and significant amount of the underlying hillside were washed away. The large hole forced operators to shut off the flow at a time when the level ...