#GameoftheYear1988 #ZXSpectrum #SinclairZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #Python #Rockfall #DragonNinja #Wolfman

ROUND 1 Poll 43

Python (Softmaker Box)
Rockfall (Top Ten Software)
Dragon Ninja (Imagine Software)
Wolfman (CRL Group PLC)

1988 GAME OF THE YEAR
Top two games go through to next round

#GameoftheYear1988 #ZXSpectrum #SinclairZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

#Python #Rockfall #DragonNinja #Wolfman

Aill na Searrach (Cliff of the foals) at the Cliffs of Moher.
You can see in the middle of the cliff face the dust and debris remains of a recent rock fall.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #cliffsofmoher #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #clifffall #rockfall #Ireland

There was a megatsunami in Lituya Bay in 1958, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami . An earthquake caused a massive rockfall into a bay. The impact with the water generated a massive wave with a run up of 520m on the opposing slope. It was a shockingly powerful wave!

It turns out this kind of event is a risk in high latitude mountainous coastlines. The glaciers create steep valleys with fjords. The steep slopes have a high rockfall risk. In Norway, they are doing a mapping program to give warning before such disasters https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/comment-assessing-threat-massive-rock-slope-failures-norwegian-fjordlands

#TIL
#megatsunami
#tsunami
#rockfall

Yesterday evening I watched "La Montagne", a film about a man's experiences in the Alps near Chamonix.
Part of the plot involves (in a mystical way) lights emanating from rocks and ice, with unusual results...
However, I have a vague memory that sparks of light can sometimes be an indicator of an imminent rockfall, perhaps in some kind of piezoelectric process; has anyone else come across this?

#mountain #rockfall #glacier #alpine

भूस्खलन ट्रीटमेंट की सही तकनीक से रूबरू हुए इंजीनियर।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/uk_rock_fall_soil_erosion_treatment_intoduction_seminar

#uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #disaster #disastermanagement #soilerosion #rockfall #mountains #engineering #engineer #technique

Enjoy tracker free news reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

The end of the road trip?

The culture of 'the drive' requires sisyphean road maintenance, especially in a climate emergency.

Mobile sprawl as a form of 'recreation' eliminates the landscape. It is the annihilation of space and time. Motorists want to get from their door to the spectacle in the fastest way possible. The 'in-between space' viewed through the car window vanishes.

The pleasure cruise from A to B does not just degrade the landscape, but also eradicates possibilities of a livable planet. The overuse by the masses in their fossil fuel boxes makes the hillsides crumble, leads to landslides and erosion. After flash flooding, drought and heatwaves the roads have to be rebuilt over and over again.

Here are three cases of 'scenic drives':
California, Victoria and NSW

Extreme weather is changing California. These road trips show how
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/28/climate-extremes-california-road-trip

Climate Risk : The Path Ahead for the Great Ocean Road
Unsustainable Tourism
https://www.earlywarningnetwork.com.au/news/the-path-ahead-for-the-great-ocean-road

Waterfall Way scenic drive, NSW
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/driving-routes/waterfall-way-scenic-drive
Why is the road called Waterfall Way ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-15/waterfall-way-in-dorrigo-coffs-harbour-wet-weather-nsw/12986532

#TheDrive #Cars #roads #ScenicDrive #vehicles #MobileSprawl #tourism #FossilFuels #hazards #RoadTrips #culture #So50s #BigAuto #MobilityDesign #dromology #speed #GreatOceanRoad #WaterfallWay #Dorrigo #NSW #GlenifferRoad #landscapes #erosion #RockFall #FlashFlooding #ClimateCrisis

Section of Highway 3 in Southern Interior reopened after rockfall closure
The section is west of the village of Keremeos, between Hedley-Nickleplate Road and Ashnola Road, a distance of 5.5 kilometres.
#globalnews #Traffic #Highway3 #highwayclosure #Rockfall
https://globalnews.ca/news/10077466/bc-highway-3-reopening-update-nov-7-2023/

Global News BC: Section of Highway 3 in Southern Interior reopened after rockfall closure https://globalnews.ca/news/10077466/bc-highway-3-reopening-update-nov-7-2023/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #southerninterior #highwayclosure #Highway3 #Rockfall #Traffic

Section of Highway 3 in Southern Interior reopened after rockfall closure
According to DriveBC and the Ministry of Transportation, it’s anticipated that the highway will reopen on Tuesday, around 5 p.m.
#globalnews #Traffic #Highway3 #highwayclosure #Rockfall
https://globalnews.ca/news/10077466/bc-highway-3-reopening-update-nov-7-2023/

#rockfall yesterday in the Maurienne Valley, french #Alps 🇫🇷, causing the cut of roads to Italy 🇮🇹.

The relation to the permafrost melting, as suggested in the paper, is questionable because of low elevation of the event…
But any impact from the heavy rains of past days?

#geomorphology

#WalkAcrossTheAlps Day 4: Miralago - Le Prese
The trail soon shows that there might have a rock or two fallen down lately.
#rockfall

Mountains Are Collapsing - A Swiss Mountain Peak Fell Apart, Sending 3.5 Million Cubic Feet Of Rock Into The Valley Below - Scientists Warn Climate Change Could Make More Mountains Crumble.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/mountains-switzerland-collapsing-from-permafrost-melt-2023-8 <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #prediction #geology #engineeringgeology #massmovement #global #landslide #debrisflow #mudslide #mountain #cryosphere #glacier #snow #ice #permafrost #water #hydrology #rockfall #EuropeanAlps #europe #SouthernAlps #newzealand #andes #peru #indigeneous #firstnation #risk #hazard #publicsafety #climate #melting #snowandicemanagement #climatechange #landforms #change #geomorphology #globalwarming #IPCC #naturalhazard #geologichazards

#rockfall #dorset Way too close for comfort!

Rockfall forces beachgoers to flee

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12937870

Global News BC: Highway 4 closed in both directions due to wind at Cameron Lake Bluffs https://globalnews.ca/news/9856978/highway-4-closed-cameron-lake-wind/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #VancouverIsland #travellers #Highway4 #Rockfall #Closure #drivebc #Canada #Roads #Winds

Late #MountainMonday from the #LTER site in Matsch/Mazia, #SouthTyrol, #Italy.

Went up to 3000m to my sampling plots and we heared a #rockfall.

Nice hike on the high ridge between the valley.
Love my job 😎

#SoilBiology #SoilBON #AlpSoil_Lab

"The #rockfall events and #PDCs were more than the 254 and 17 recorded on Saturday, respectively, while the #VolcanicEarthquake decreased significantly from the 65 logged the day before." #Philippines

#MayonVolcano records 397 rockfall events, Alert Level 3 stays — #Phivolcs
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1796240/mayon-volcano-records-nearly-400-rockfall-events-4-quakes-phivolcs?utm_source=gallery&utm_medium=direct

Swiss and Austrian mountains collapse
"Global heating had led to the melting of permafrost, which acts like an adhesive holding the massif together. The summit of a mountain in Austria also crashed to the ground earlier this week."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/huge-landslide-misses-swiss-mountain-village-of-brienz-by-a-hair
#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #permafrost #Rockfall #Mountains #Collapse

The change is even visible from the valley floor in #jacksonhole — check out the sharpened angular spire below and to the left of the #grandteton. Newest image on top. #grandtetonnationalpark #yellowstone #geology #rockfall #mountains #wyoming

Even though the word #climate doesn't appear in the report on the impending #rockfall [in Switzerland], I find these sentences especially noteworthy:

... he says after ... informed about the evacuation: "That was like getting a few [hits] on the ears. Like a low blow. Subconsciously you know it's coming, you don't want to admit it, but it's coming." He's packing now. Reluctantly, but he has to. ...