This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here December 30, 2020 As 2020 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. The articles are in decscending order from most clicked. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 6. Michigan dam collapse video shows a 'classic' example of earthworks failure Gizmodo From May 27: As residents of Michigan’s Midland county scramble to recover from devastating floods, a video has emerged showing the critical moment when Eden dam collapsed, in a failure experts are attributing to shoddy maintenance and climate change. READ MORE The landslide-induced TGV (high speed train) accident in France The Landslide Blog From March 11: 5 March 2020, a TGV (high speed train) struck a landslide between Strasburg and Vendenheim in the Bas-Rhin area of France. The train remained upright, not least because it appears that it was a glancing blow rather than a direct collision, but 22 people were injured, one seriously. READ MORE Sardoba Reservoir: A major dam collapse in Uzbekistan The Landslide Blog From May 6: On Friday, May 1, a major collapse occurred in the earth-filled dam of Sardoba Reservoir in Uzbekistan, causing extensive flooding. The video, posted to YouTube, shows the breach with water pouring through, and the development of the resultant flooding. READ MORE The Alta Quick Clay Landslide: further footage AGU From June 10: This new film provides some additional footage of the site prior to the main slide and some drone footage of the aftermath. In both cases the imagery is very revealing. The early footage was also filmed by Jan Egil Bakkerby, who shot the main video that went viral yesterday. It shows the site shortly before the main failure. READ MORE The lost continent of Zealandia hides clues to the Ring of Fire's birth Live Science From Feb. 19: The hidden undersea continent of Zealandia underwent an upheaval at the time of the birth of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Zealandia is a chunk of continental crust next door to Australia. It's almost entirely beneath the ocean, with the exception of a few protrusions, like New Zealand and New Caledonia. READ MORE Awakening volcanic region in Iceland 'could cause disruption for centuries' The Guardian From April 15: Volcanic activity is escalating in a region of Iceland that has not erupted for 800 years, with scientists warning it could cause disruption for centuries to come. Since Jan. 21, the Reykjanes peninsula southwest of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, has experienced more than 8,000 earthquakes and about 10 centimeters of land uplift due to magma intrusions underground. READ MORE Cobriza, Peru: Another significant tailings dam failure The Landslide Blog From July 17: Another significant tailings dam failure occurred at Cobriza in Peru July 10. Cobriza is a copper mine — interestingly, some reports indicate that "the concentrator was operated at a rate quite below its capacity due to lack of mine ore and lately (2016 and 2017) due to lack of capacity in the tailings dam." READ MORE A video of a small but spectacular rockslide from Uttarakhand, India The Landslide Blog From Jan. 1: A video has been posted onto YouTube showing a reasonably small but undeniably spectacular rockslide. In the comments section .the location is described as being Uttarakhand, but no further details are provided. READ MORE The best landslide videos of 2019 The Landslide Blog From Jan. 1: As written by Dave Petley, "The (Northern Hemisphere) summer of 2019 is proving to be exceptionally active from a landslide perspective, with multiple events worldwide. Indeed, to date I have recorded 96 fatal landslide events in July alone, smashing the previous record of 88." READ MORE Major landslides caused by agricultural irrigation in Peru The Landslide Blog From Jan. 22: It is well-established that irrigation by farmers can be the cause of landslides, especially in areas with low rainfall totals. A very nice study was published in Nature Geoscience that uses a long archive of satellite data to examine landsliding on river cliffs in Peru. The study area, the Vitor and Siguas valleys in southern Peru, is hyper-arid, which has meant that historically agriculture has been limited to the flood plains of the incised river channels. READ MORE .CALENDAR OF EVENTS Date Event Location Feb. 22-26, 2021 13 International Symposium on Landslides Cartagena, Colombia March 5-7, 2021 1st Geoengineering, Climate Change and Sustantinable Development Conference Bangladesh April 8-12, 2021 Euroengeo — 3rd European Regional Conference of IAEG Athens, Greece May 10-14, 2021 IFCEE Expo Dallas, Texas May 16-19, 2021 EuroGeo 7 Warsaw, Poland June 14-18, 2021 Cities on Volcanoes 11 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Aug. 16-21, 2021 36th IGC Delhi, India Sept. 6-10, 2021 1st IAEG South American Regional Conference Córdoba, Argentina Oct. 17-20, 2021 International Conference on Scour and Erosion Arlington, Virginia Nov. 15-19, 2021 ARC 13 Singapore Sept. 14, 2022 FedIGS Chengdu, China Sept. 15-20, 2022 IAEG Congress Chengdu, China Sept. 18-22, 2022 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics Rome, Italy   IAEG Connector E-News Connect with IAEG Dennis Hall, Director of Publishing, MultiView, 469-420-2656 | Download media kit Katina Hernandez, Executive Editor, MultiView, 469-420-2675 | Contribute news International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment IAEG, c/o Dr. Scott Burns, Portland State University, PO Box 751   |  Portland, OR 97207  503-725-3389  |  Contact Us  |  www.iaeg.info Click here to unsubscribe.  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 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