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Special Welcome Message from Scott Burns
Welcome to the last two issues of the IAEG Connector for 2022. Our company that puts the newsletter together with IAEG gives its workers a two week holiday for the holiday season this time of the year so there will be no new news in this issue. The last two issues will look back at 2022 and see which articles our members downloaded the most, and they are ranked from 20-11 and then 10 to 1 in these last two issues! Everyone, enjoy this time of the year and have a super New Year! We will be back in January with lots of new news!
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Scud Glacier: Images of the 2020 rock avalanche in British Columbia
The Landslide Blog
From March 24: As written by Dave Petley, "Loyal reader Brian Rottenfusser has very kindly sent me two images of a rock avalanche that occurred on the Scud Glacier near to Telegraph Creek in British Columbia in Canada. The images were taken by Bob MacDonald, who has given permission for me to publish them. The images were taken on 16 September 2020, although the landslide probably occurred some months earlier."
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A large rock slab topple from India
The Landslide Blog
From Jan. 26: The video here, posted to YouTube, occurred at about 4:10 p.m. on 7 January 2022. It shows a slab topple in a coherent slice of rock.
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Is the world's largest volcano getting ready to erupt?
Discover Magazine
From Oct. 12: No volcano on Earth is as large as Mauna Loa on the big island of Hawai'i. The giant edifice rises from sea level to over 13,700 feet ... but that is only the top of the volcano. If you count the parts of Mauna Loa below the Pacific Ocean, it towers over 29,000 feet from bottom to top -- as tall as Mount Everest.
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Murgame: A debris flow game from the WSL
The Landslide Blog
From Jan: 26: GeoPrac.net recently highlighted that the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research has written an interactive game, Murgame, that both highlights the risks associated with debris flows to mountain communities and that gives the player experience of the effectiveness, and economics, of various types of mitigation.
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2 new large landslides in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
The Landslide Blog
From March 9: In recent weeks, the Southern Alps of New Zealand have suffered substantial rainfall events, including 1,177 mm of precipitation in three days at Tuke Hut in Westland. In consequence, two large landslides have occurred.
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The Brazil resort town disappearing into the sea
Phys.org
From Feb. 16: Vultures roam the sand in the Brazilian resort town of Atafona amid the ruins of the latest houses destroyed by the sea, whose relentless rise has turned the local coastline into an apocalyptic landscape. The Atlantic Ocean advances an average of six meters (nearly 20 feet) a year in this small town north of Rio de Janeiro, which has long been prone to extreme erosion — now exacerbated by climate change.
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IAEG Events
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IAEG Congress
September 2023
Chengdu, China
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14th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG
November 6-8, 2023
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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2nd Latin American Regional Conference of IAEG
November 13-15, 2024
Pucon, Chile
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Pucon, Chile
October 2-6, 2024
Dubrovnik, Croatia
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4th African Regional Conference of IAEG
Middle of 2024
Botswana
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15th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG
15th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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