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Happy Birthday! The Dubai Metro turns 10 years old today
what's on   09 September 2019   United Arab Emirates   Dubai  
Construction workers on the Dubai Metro tracks
<p>It&rsquo;s hard to believe but it was just 10 years ago today, on September 9, 2009, that Dubai Metro came into our lives &ndash; not only making travelling around Dubai easier, but cheaper as well.<br />The Dubai Metro was an idea of His Highness Sheikh ...
An L.A.-area fault looked dormant. Turns out it can cause a 6.4-magnitude quake, study says.
The Washington Post   05 September 2019   USA   California, L.A.  
Etienne Laurent/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
<p>Scientists thought the Wilmington blind‐thrust fault that runs deep under the Los Angeles region had been dormant since the Late Pliocene era, millions of years ago. But a new study reveals that it&rsquo;s very much alive, and capable of generating the ...
Ville-Marie and Viger: Downtown tunnels are getting a makeover
Montreal Gazette   05 September 2019   Canada   Montreal  
Massive ventilation shafts provide air to the tunnel and pump out air pollution from the tunnel
<p>They handle 118,000 vehicles per day, are surrounded by an ancient river and can pump out the equivalent of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of water daily.<br />The tunnels that run under the city&rsquo;s downtown core, next to m&eacute;tro stations, pedestrian ...
Filed under: Construction News
Greece grants Eldorado permits for gold project
MINING.com   03 September 2019   Greece   Skouries  
Construction of processing plant at Skouries. (Image courtesy of Eldorado Gold)
<p>Eldorado Gold (NYSE: EGO) confirmed on Tuesday that it has recieved installation permits for its Skouries project and its Olympias mine from the Greek Ministry of Energy and Environment.<br>Vancouver-based Eldorado has two operating mines and two development ...
Filed under: Mining News
Fossil discovery reveals face of oldest early human ancestor
Euronews   30 August 2019   Ethiopia  
<p>The face of the oldest early human ancestor has been revealed by the discovery in Ethiopia of a 3.8 million-year-old near-complete skull.<br>The uncovered fossil, which provides insight into a pivotal period for human evolution, belongs to the species Australopithecus ...
Tunnel flooded near Edinburgh blocks trains in and out of city
ITV   08 August 2019   Scotland   Edinburgh  
Flooding at the Winchburgh Tunnel. Credit: @ScotRail / Twitter
<p>A major railway through Edinburgh has been flooded after heavy rain over Wednesday.<br />Trains in and out of Edinburgh were hit by flooding in Linlithgow, west of the capital, which caused the line between the town and city to close.<br />ScotRail has ...
Mount Polley mine disaster 5 years later; emotions, accountability unresolved
CBC News   05 August 2019   British Columbia   Quesnel Lake  
Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press
<p>People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with unresolved emotions about what happened and who will be held accountable ...
Death toll in southwest China landslide rises to 36
Aljazeera   28 July 2019   China   Guizhou  
Rescue personnel assemble at the foot of a mountain after a landslide occurred in the southwest China's Guizhou province [Reuters]
<p>At least 36 people have died in a landslide that struck a village in southwest China, with 15 others still missing days after the disaster hit, according to state broadcaster CCTV.<br />The landslide late on Tuesday in Pingdi village, in Guizhou province's ...
Watch as the Ridgecrest earthquake shatters desert floor in stunning before-and-after images
Los Angeles Times   23 July 2019   USA   California  
Sotiris Valkaniotis / Google Earth / DigitalGlobe
<p>Millions felt the shaking from the Ridgecrest earthquake.<br>But new satellite images offer a dramatic and instructive view of the immense power of the magnitude 7.1 quake, showing how California’s biggest earthquake in nearly two decades caused the ground ...
Strong earthquake rocks Greek capital of Athens; buildings seriously damaged
CBS NEWS   19 July 2019   Greece   athens  
ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS / REUTERS
<p>Athens, Greece &ndash; A strong earthquake hit Friday near the Greek capital of Athens, causing residents to run into the streets in fear and firefighters to check for people trapped in elevators. The Athens Institute of Geodynamics gave the earthquake ...