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Latest landslide adds to ‘unprecedented’ damage along scenic Highway 1 in Big Sur area
Photo: John Madonna, Associated Press
<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 ...
Miner killed after boulder falls at Whitley County strip mine
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 ...
Fire brings down Atlanta bridge
Fire brings down Atlanta bridge (source: The construction index)
<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 ...
Hyperloop One shows off development site
Hyperloop One prototype (source: The Construction Index)
<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 ...
Filed under: Construction News
Ferrovial wins Texas highway expansion
Highway in San Antoni (source: The Construction Index)
<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 ...
Filed under: Construction News
Northern California residents face new evacuation warning after Oroville threat
The Guardian   20 February 2017   United States   Americas  
Trucks that hauled rocks drive off the Lake Oroville dam after an evacuation order was lifted for communities downstream. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
<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 ...
Santa Monica seeks to pass the nation's most extensive earthquake retrofit plan
Los Angeles Times   14 February 2017   United States   Americas  
Structures seismic vulnerablity indicative map (source: Los Angeles Times)
<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 ...
180,000 people are told to evacuate over "Imminent Failure" Of California's Oroville Dam - Live Feeds
BBC NEWS   13 February 2017   United States   Americas  
The structure of the Oroville Dam in California has weakened following heavy rainfall (AP)
<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) ...
Millennium Tower reviewed building design, but not the ground
San Francisco Curbed   07 February 2017   United States   Americas  
Millennium Tower (photo credit: MichaelTG)
<p>The developers behind the sinking Millennium Tower paid for an independent review of the tower itself before it was built, but not of the site it sits on, according to new testimony at City Hall on Thursday.</p> <p>The Government Audit and Oversight Committee ...
M=3.5 earthquake strikes near creeping San Andreas and Calaveras Faults
temblor.net   01 February 2017   United States   Americas  
The San Andreas Fault cuts through DeRose Winery in Hollister, CA. The resulting creep (steady slip) has progressively offset this culvert over the past 30 years. (Photo from geologycafe.com)
<p>At 9:35 p.m. local time last night (January 30), a small M=3.5 earthquake shook the city of Hollister, CA, and was felt as far away as Santa Cruz and Monterey. According to the USGS ShakeMap, only light shaking was felt, and around 300 people recorded feeling ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards