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China Mulls Next Super Project: The Longest Undersea Tunnel
Caixin Global   22 May 2019   China   Bohai Sea  
China is reviewing a plan to build the world’s longest undersea tunnel in Bohai Sea. Photo: VCG
<p>Chinese engineers may soon start boring deep beneath the Bohai Sea to build the longest underwater tunnel on earth, embarking on another ambitious super project to increase connectivity in Northeast China.<br />A plan to construct an undersea tunnel linking ...
Geologists Just Discovered a Source of Volcanoes Deeper Than Ever Before
Science Alert   20 May 2019   World  
(Wendy Kenigsberg/Clive Howard, Cornell University, modified from Mazza et al. 2019)
<p>Researchers have pinpointed a previously unknown source of volcanoes in the extreme depths of Earth - in the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle.<br />Until now, we thought we had a handle on the ways in which volcanoes form, welling up from ...
Spire architect designs new €6m Dublin bridge
THE IRISH TIMES   14 May 2019   Ireland   Dublin  
The bridge will span a 40m distance across the river beside the UCD boat club on the Chapelizod Road
<p>A design by the architect of the Millennium Spire on Dublin&rsquo;s O&rsquo;Connell Street has been selected for a new &euro;6 million pedestrian and cyclist bridge across the river Liffey in Dublin.<br />The bridge design by Ian Ritchie, in the National ...
The Top 9 Longest Tunnels in the World
Interesting Engineering   08 May 2019   World  
Source: Svein-Magne Tunli/Wikimedia Commons
<p>Tunnels are some of the greatest engineering feats humanity has ever undertaken. We (humankind) have, in fact, been digging them for millennia.<br />But, they have not all been excavated for purely logistical reasons. Tunnels were, and still are, widely ...
Large seismic event underway off North Island's east coast, triggering swarm of earthquakes
There have been 85 quakes in this area since Monday. Photo credit: GNS Science
<p>A swarm of earthquakes has been triggered off the North Island's east coast by a large seismic event similar to what preceded the 2011 Japanese quake and tsunami.<br />GNS Science has confirmed one of the largest "slow-slips" ever observed in New Zealand ...
100 Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions Found at Amethyst Mining Site
Live Science   26 March 2019   Egypt  
Credit: Photo courtesy Wadi el-Hudi Expedition
<p>Archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 ancient inscriptions carved into rock at Wadi el-Hudi, where the ancient Egyptians mined amethyst.<br />In addition to the carved-rock inscription, the researchers also found 14 stele (inscriptions carved on a ...
Earth scientists plan to meld massive databases into a ‘geological Google’
Science   26 February 2019   World  
Deep-time Digital Earth aims to liberate data from collections such as the British Geological Survey’s. British Geological Survey
<p>The British Geological Survey (BGS) has amassed one of the world&rsquo;s premier collections of geologic samples. Housed in three enormous warehouses in Nottingham, U.K., it contains about 3 million fossils gathered over more than 150 years at thousands ...
Ring of Fire WARNING: When will earthquake strike California - when will BIG ONE hit?
Express   11 February 2019   USA   California  
<p>CALIFORNIA will eventually be struck by a huge earthquake that could have catastrophic effects. But when will the Big One hit?</p>
Decoding the urban sprawl: the world’s most complex metro maps
Railway - Technology.com   06 February 2019   World  
New York City Subway
<p>In the sprawling metropolises of Tokyo, London and Paris, urban metro networks are vital for keeping things moving, but laying out these complex systems intuitively for passengers is no easy feat. Which metros have the most complicated network and how have ...
New Resource for Using Cone Penetration Testing in Geotechnical Design
CROSSROADS   04 February 2019   World  
<p>A newly produced geotechnical design guide uses cone penetration testing to characterize soils and foundation needs. A supplement to the Minnesota Department of Transportation&rsquo;s geotechnical design manual, this resource will provide improved methods ...