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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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National Geographic
From June 13: While trapped inside Mexico's Sistema Huautla by torrential flooding, cavers and scientists discovered new connections — expanding the map of the Western Hemisphere's deepest cave.
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The Landslide Blog
From Nov. 7: Mannen is one of Norway’s most threatening mountains. During recent years, its activities provoked 11 evacuations of the valley’s inhabitants and train disruptions along one of the country’s most scenic routes.
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The Landslide Blog
From Nov. 7: An excellent landslide video has been posted onto YouTube. The video was shot on a road at Man-asok near Buguias in Benguet, on Luzon in the Philippines Nov. 4.
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Purdue University
From Nov. 7: Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into the earth. This impact, the one that would lead to the end of the dinosaurs, left a scar several miles underground and more than 115 miles wide.
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Forbes
From Nov. 7: In Mayan mythology, caves and sinkholes were the gates to the underworld Xibalba. This "place of fear," as the name is roughly translated, was also an important source of freshwater for the Mayan civilization, which dominated the limestone plateau of the Yucatán Peninsula from 2000 BCE to 1600 CE.
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The Landslide Blog
From Oct. 31: The small community of Old Fort, near to Fort St John in British Columbia, western Canada, was evacuated due to movement of the Old Fort landslide. In addition to potentially threatening some properties, the Old Fort landslide severed the only access road to the community.
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YouTube
From July 25: Known recently as the 10:19 am catastrophic incident, the land mass in Dongwu County in Inner Mongolia moved like a solid crust of river frightening those livestock and inhabitants living there fearing for their dear lives. This was the first time such a phenomenal movement of the Earth happened in the county.
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CBC News
From Oct. 3: The reeve of the rural municipality of Clayton, Saskatchewan, says the bridge that collapsed six hours after it opened was built without having geotechnical investigation done on the riverbed it stood on. A bridge building expert calls that approach "irregular."
The Dyck Memorial Bridge, located in the RM of Clayton about 300 kilometres east of Saskatoon, collapsed Friday shortly after it was opened.
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NBC News
From Nov. 7: While mapping the seafloor some 250 miles off the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania, scientists recently discovered what’s being called a “volcanic lost world” deep underwater.
The chain of volcanic seamounts — huge undersea mountains that loom as tall as 9,800 feet, or more than six times taller than the Empire State Building — offer a glimpse into a previously unknown ocean ecosystem.
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BBC News
From Aug. 1: Hundreds of people are missing and thousands have been made homeless after the collapse of a partially built dam in Laos. The collapsed dam sent flash floods through six villages. Associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ian Baird disagrees with calling it a natural disaster and explains why it could have been prevented.
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