Rock slope stability is a critical area of geotechnical engineering, addressing the failure mechanisms that result in the toppling of rock blocks within stratified masses. Toppling failure commonly ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like ...

A half-billion cubic meters of fractured rock above Alaska’s Barry Arm fjord is sending out strange seismic signals, a kind of subterranean heartbeat beneath a slope that could, in the worst case, ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...