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Taiwan earthquake: bridge collapsed and several buildings damaged
- Sep, 18, 2022
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- Taiwan
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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, 18, 2022
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- Taiwan
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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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Building walls with demolition waste - the poetry of Cyclopean concrete
- Sep, 16, 2022
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- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Ancient cyclopean walls were built by overlapping raw stones, supported one on the other, without the use of mortar. The name derives from the Cyclops, the giants of Greek mythology, as their constru...
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A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea: at least five fatalities
- Sep, 11, 2022
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- Papua New Guinea
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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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Congo: Bridge collapses during ribbon-cutting ceremony
- Sep, 07, 2022
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- Republic of the Congo
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Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, v...
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Southwest China: 6.8-magnitude earthquake leaves at least 46 dead
- Sep, 05, 2022
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- China, Mianyang
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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
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- Australia, Southport
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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
- Aug, 30, 2022
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- Banihal
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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, 26, 2022
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- Nigeria, Abuja
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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, 23, 2022
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- United Kingdom
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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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