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Taiwan earthquake: bridge collapsed and several buildings damaged
- Sep, 26, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural Bridges Structural Behavior
- Taiwan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Drone footage shows a collapsed bridge damaged in a 6.8 earthquake that hit southeastern Taiwan on 18 September 2022. Taiwan's weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung County and followed a...
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Taiwan: 6.9-magnitude earthquake, buildings collapse
- Sep, 20, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural
- Taiwan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse and triggering tsunami warnings. The quake hit the Chishang township in rural southeastern Taiwan and had a...
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A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea: at least five fatalities
- Sep, 13, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Damage (Structural) Other Structural
- Papua New Guinea
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea, damaging buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least five people. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at a dept...
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Southwest China: 6.8-magnitude earthquake leaves at least 46 dead
- Sep, 06, 2022
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are a...
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Plans for Australia’s tallest tower
- Sep, 02, 2022
- Structural Design Performance-Based Design Other Structural Structural Behavior Standards And Design Codes
- Australia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A Melbourne consortium has laid plans for Australia’s tallest building after lodging a development application for a $400 million twin-tower project on the Gold Coast. The landmark development, com...
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Banihal-Katra rail link in India’s J&K: new tunnel completed
- Sep, 01, 2022
- Structural Design Structural Systems Underground Structures Other Structural
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 9.8km tunnel on the Banihal-Katra railway link in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has been completed, the Press Trust of India reported citing officials. The tunnel has been designed to con...
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Building collapse in Abuja, Nigeria – at least one fatality and two trapped
- Aug, 31, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Concrete Structures Structural Design Other Structural
- Nigeria
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A three-storey building collapsed in Kubwa Satellite town, Abuja on Friday. At least one person has been confirmed dead while Channels Television had earlier reported that two persons were trapped an...
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Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm: first power generation was announced
- Aug, 26, 2022
- Sustainable Development Other Structural Wind Engineering Structural Systems Performance-Based Design
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
SSE Renewables, and its partner Total Energies have announced first power generation from the Seagreen offshore wind farm, 27km off the coast of Angus in Scotland. The 1,075MW Seagreen offshore wind...
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Βuilding collapse in Lagos: two children dead
- Aug, 24, 2022
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Concrete Structures Structural Behavior Other Structural
- Nigeria
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday confirmed that bodies of the two children were recovered in the incident. The children have died following the collapse of a building in...
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: at least six fatalities in building collapse
- Aug, 22, 2022
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Other Structural
- Ethiopia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
At least six people were killed in a building collapse Saturday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, according to a police source. The accident happened when a warehouse collapsed in the Mercat...
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