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On this day in 1906: Courrières mine disaster. The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906. This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on 26 April 1942, which killed 1,549 miners. A coaldust explosion, the cause of which is not known with certainty, devastated a coal mine operated by the Compagnie des mines de houille de Courrières. A large explosion was heard shortly after 06:30 on the morning of Saturday 10 March 1906. An elevator cage at Shaft 3 was thrown to the surface, damaging the pit-head; windows and roofs were blown out on the surface at Shaft 4; an elevator cage raised at Shaft 2 contained only dead or unconscious miners.

In an effort to promote awareness on Dam Safety, an issue that is increasingly pertinent, particularly for the ageing infrastructure of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as part of its National Dam Safety Program, has produced an expert video series with lectures by renowned Geotechnical Engineering experts on the following topics: Case Histories and Causes of Failure, by Professor Ralph B.

For decades, geothermal energy has remained a largely untapped resource in the United States, limited to areas where the Earth's heat naturally rises close to the surface.

On this day in 1887: James Buchanan Eads died. American civil engineer and inventor James Buchanan Eads was the first U.S. citizen awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of the Arts. He holded more than 50 patents. Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River at St. Louis, which was the longest arch bridge in the world when completed.

Chongqing, a city known for its mountainous landscapes, is undergoing a unique transformation.

The interaction between a foundation system and the underlying ground is the defining factor of the stress-dependent behavior of the subgrade soil, also known as soil subgrade reaction.

The Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California has long been home to slow-moving landslides.

Dataforensics unlocked incredible value for the US Army Corps of Engineers by moving subsurface data to the cloud, saving years in migration time and 62,700 work hours along the way.

Only two days left until the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure webinar "Understanding and enhancing the interconnections between human experience and the built environment" on Friday March 07, 9:00-10:00AM PST! 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dtg-3nCe #webinar

On this day in 1827: Pierre-Simon Laplace died. Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace. Laplace formulated Laplace's equation, and pioneered the Laplace transform. Laplace is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. Sometimes referred to as the French Newton or Newton of France