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As 2018 comes to a close, IAEG would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of IAEG Connector E-News a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 9.
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The Landslide Blog
From Oct. 31: On Oct. 19, a significant landslide occurred in George Town, Penang in Malaysia, killing nine construction workers located in temporary accommodation at the foot of the slope. The landslide, at the Bukit Kukus paired road site, occurred on a large slope that had been cut as part of the highway construction project.
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Peninsula Daily News
From Oct. 31: Government scientists have classified 18 U.S. volcanoes as “very high threat” because of what’s been happening inside them and how close they are to people.
The U.S. Geological Survey has updated its volcano threat assessments for the first time since 2005.
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Earth Magazine
From Oct. 24: In early 2017, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other U.S. research institutions announced that new data had led them to raise the upper estimate of projected global sea-level rise by the end of this century to 2.5 meters. That’s considered the extreme scenario and would require a catastrophic melting of land-based ice sheets and glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.
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ScienceAlert
From Nov. 21: In the far North of the globe, hidden under continental sheet ice nearly a kilometre thick, geologists have found evidence that, not so long ago, Greenland was rocked by a collision with a massive meteorite.
The proof? A huge impact crater, 31 kilometers (19.3 miles) in diameter.
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The Landslide Blog
From Oct. 24: Sigi Biromaru is a suburb of Palu, Sulawesi, located on the eastern side of the valley. Whilst most of the focus in the weeks since the Sulawesi earthquake has been on the flow slides, it is easy to forget that other slopes also went through significant lateral spreading during the mainshock.
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EarthSky
From Nov. 7: A team of researchers has documented a recent volcanic eruption in the western Pacific Ocean about 2.8 miles below the ocean surface that they describe as the deepest known eruption on Earth — deeper below the ocean surface than Mount Rainier’s height above sea level.
The researchers say the eruption probably happened between 2013-2015 on the Mariana back-arc, a zone of the sea floor with active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench.
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The Weather Channel
From Nov. 14: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake that struck southern Mexico on Sept. 7, 2017, not only occurred where existing earthquake modeling said it shouldn't happen, it also broke a tectonic plate, according to scientists. The Tehuantepec quake struck off the Pacific coast of Mexico's Chiapas state, which borders Guatemala.
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Forbes
From Nov. 14: Teotihuacan, translated from the Aztec language as "birthplace of the gods," or "place where gods were born," was an important religious and cultural center during the Aztec empire. However, the oldest monuments in the city predate the Aztec empire by at least 300 years.
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Quanta Magazine
From Oct. 24: In August 2016, a research team claimed to have unearthed evidence of life in a remote outcrop of 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Greenland. This bold claim not only pushed back the origin of life by at least 220 million years, it also added to a growing body of evidence that challenged the standard story of Earth’s violent beginning, as Quanta Magazine reported in “Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start.”
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Press and Journal
From Nov. 14: A landslip near Invergarry, Scotland, wiped out the power supply to thousands of islanders Nov. 12 in the Hebrides.
Residents on Skye and the Western Isles experienced the loss of power shortly after 9 a.m.
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