16 October, 2024 Newsletter INSAR AND GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS Geotechnical analysis is a regulated practice with developed and strictly controlled guidelines or codes: example can be Eurocode-7 (EU) or Geotechnical Site Characterization Publication No. FHWA NHI-16–072 (US). These codes are applied rigorously.The codes provide rules and define procedures for site investigation, including field campaigns, derivation of […]
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13 September, 2024 Newsletter Underground Climate Change In our last Newsletter, we discussed how climate change affects weather patterns and land deformations caused by these changing patterns.Melting permafrost is a well-known phenomenon of this kind affecting vast areas in Canada, the US and Russia, but a new factor was detected recently, nicknamed “underground climate change”,
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Newsletter Climate change and new land deformation patterns A few studies demonstrated that climate change leads to changing weather patterns and the frequency of extreme events, such as extreme temperatures, increased precipitation, draughts, floods and hurricanestropical cyclones, storms, typhoons. Average number of hurricanes in the US. Adjustment is made for observation methods. Source: NOAA, 2023;
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Newsletter Geohazards: Enhancing Preparedness for a Changing World The recent devastating floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Eastern Africa, along with the ongoing drought in Southern Africa, disastrous floods in Brazil highlight the urgent need to address the evolving challenges of geohazards. Rufiji river, Tanzania, floods, ESAWhile natural disasters have occurred throughout history,
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