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IAEG Electronic Newsletter 2023, Issue No.4

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The final issue of the IAEG Electronic Newsletter for 2024, Issue 4, is available to download.

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IAEG Electronic Newsletter 2023, Issue No.3

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The latest issue of the IAEG Electronic Newsletter is available for download.

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286th IAEG Connector

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We have lots of geodisasters happening around the world! Major landslides on the Isle of Wight (United Kingdom), Tanzania, and Seattle, Washington are highlighted. There is a great article about Jakarta, Indonesia sinking very fast. The great news, though, comes from India where the 41 workers in the tunnel with the collapsed entrance have been recovered!

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44th ISRM online lecture

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The 44th ISRM online lecture will be delivered by Dr. Manchao He, from China. The lecture title is: “Possible strategy for landslide prediction”. It will be broadcast on December 14th at 10 A.M. GMT, from the Online Lecture's page.

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285th IAEG Connector

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We have no new IAEG news this week (next week we will have a lot). Two major geodisasters, though, this week caused major losses of life! Landslides in a copper mine in Zambia killed at least seven miners and a volcanic eruption on Mt. Marapi killed another 11 people.

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ISSMGE Europe newsletter, special edition 2023

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Welcome to the special issue of our ISSMGE Europe newsletter, in which we focus on the upcoming European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE24) to be held from 26th – 30th August 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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284th IAEG Connector

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This week we want to announce the call for nominations for our new Paul Marinos Distinguished World Lecture Tour. Please submit some nominations. Next week we will have more information on the congress in Chengdu. In the news we have the world's largest iceberg moving again, a newly found seamount off of the coast of Guatemala, a deadly landslide in Alaska (U.S.) and sand mining in Vietnam.

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283rd IAEG Connector

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For the next couple of weeks we will be summarizing some of the big news items from our congress in Chengdu! The first thing that we want to highlight is we elected two new honorary members of IAEG in Chengdu! Dr. Giorgio Lollino and Dr. Paolo Allasia of Italy were both given honorary memberships in IAEG, one of our highest honors.

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282nd IAEG Connector

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In Iceland volcanic eruptions are threatening a village of 3500 and the country's most famous tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon. A huge tunnel collapse in India is leading to the rescue of over 40 workers trapped underground. Nepal continues to have aftershocks from its large earthquake. Bali has many landslides after the first monsoon of the season. And, Japan has a new underwater volcano!

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281st IAEG Connector

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The lead article this week is from one of our Vice Presidents from Asia, Professor Ranjan Dahal of Nepal who updates us on the November 3rd, 2023 earthquake there. Many thanks for the up to date information and photos! Minex is also having a meeting in London later this month.

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