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Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California
Bombay Beach is an interesting town along the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. A small community still resides in the half abandoned town. Some time ago, shifting water levels flooded the town and a wall was built around it to keep high tides out.
This area of town exists on the outside of the wall and it was once a trailer/RV park. Somehow, it became buried under several feet of mud and sand -- trailers and all.
It seems as though the water level is higher than it once was. All of this stuff was out in the lake -- stuff that usually isn't planted in the water on purpose. It's interesting seeing power line poles with no lines attached, and others with the lines laying on the ground.
First responders from across the country were in Virginia Beach for a massive structural collapse training exercise hosted by the Virginia Beach Fire Department and Virginia Task Force 2. The annual School was held at the sprawling complex of crawl spaces and staged disaster zones representing different scenarios – things first responders have seen and experienced first-hand. This course gives urban search and rescue teams a chance to practice their skills. More than 160 people took part in the hands-on training lasting for 8 days with students coming from as far as San Francisco, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware.
Photographs by Craig McClure
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First responders from across the country were in Virginia Beach for a massive structural collapse training exercise hosted by the Virginia Beach Fire Department and Virginia Task Force 2. The annual School was held at the sprawling complex of crawl spaces and staged disaster zones representing different scenarios – things first responders have seen and experienced first-hand. This course gives urban search and rescue teams a chance to practice their skills. More than 160 people took part in the hands-on training lasting for 8 days with students coming from as far as San Francisco, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware.
Photographs by Craig McClure
21227
© 2021
ALL Rights reserved by City of Virginia Beach.
Contact photo[at]vbgov.com for permission to use. Commercial use not allowed.
Name of Program: Housing reconstruction program after Gorkha Earthquake
Location: Siddhicharan Municipality-02, Okhaldhunga Nepal
Building Typology: Load Bearing Stone Masonry in Mud Mortar
Name of Owner: Dil Bdr. Katawal; processed for third tranche; RC Band used
Stone in mud buildings are constructed using dressed or undressed stones available at the site with mud mortar. The structural walls are the main load-bearing component of the building. The walls are usually 450-650 mm. thick. Such thick walls are generally constructed in multiple wythes with the filler material (small pieces of stones) between the walls. The floor system is the flexible type of mud flooring on bamboo or timber joists. The roof system is also flexible type with CGI sheets or tiles over timber rafters.
Nepal suffered a massive loss of lives and property on Saturday 25 April 2015, when the devastating magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Nepal. Subsequent aftershocks, including one of magnitude 7.3 near the Chinese border on 12 May, produced additional losses of life and property.
The earthquake triggered avalanches on Mount Everest and in the Langtang valley. Villages were flattened and people were made homeless across 31 districts, with 14 districts suffering the highest impact. Infrastructure was damaged throughout the earthquake zone. Historic neighborhoods and heritage sites were destroyed in the Kathmandu Valley.
As a result of the earthquake, 8,790 people died and more than 22,300 people were injured. Assessments showed that at least 498,852 private houses and 2,656 government buildings were destroyed. Another 256,697 private houses and 3,622 government buildings were partially damaged. In addition, 19,000 classrooms were destroyed and 11,000 damaged.
The earthquake affected manufacturing, production, and trade in agriculture as well as tourism and other areas of the service sector, thereby weakening the national economy. Economic growth fell in 2015 and has picked up slowly 2016. Once fully underway, reconstruction should contribute to economic growth in the coming years.
According to initial estimates arrived at during the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), NPR 669 billion would be required to reconstruct damaged properties and infrastructure and to support recovery in affected sectors of the economy.
The government was providing 300 hundred thousand grant for Private housing reconstruction & 100 hundred thousand grant for retrofitting of the private house damaged by earthquake
SAIFD AIR Program "Form & Structure" with Kenneth Snauwaert, AIFD.
October 23rd, 2011
(Photo Credit: Sandra Austoni)
SAIFD AIR Program "Form & Structure" with Kenneth Snauwaert, AIFD.
October 23rd, 2011
(Photo Credit: Sandra Austoni)
Every morning on every working day cars queue up for getting to work. Nothing moves.
That's why I normally take my motorbike.
Lightroom -> Photomatix -> Lightroom -> PSE
First responders from across the country were in Virginia Beach for a massive structural collapse training exercise hosted by the Virginia Beach Fire Department and Virginia Task Force 2. The annual School was held at the sprawling complex of crawl spaces and staged disaster zones representing different scenarios – things first responders have seen and experienced first-hand. This course gives urban search and rescue teams a chance to practice their skills. More than 160 people took part in the hands-on training lasting for 8 days with students coming from as far as San Francisco, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware.
Photographs by Craig McClure
21227
© 2021
ALL Rights reserved by City of Virginia Beach.
Contact photo[at]vbgov.com for permission to use. Commercial use not allowed.
This is pretty much the end of the structural coats I'll finish up the top in preparation for the brick cap then put the trowel coats on
Structurally-tilted mudrocks in the Cambrian of South Australia.
One soft-bodied fossil has been discovered from this site - a poorly-preserved Isoxys valve was cracked out in the lab. Isoxys is a nonmineralizing bivalved arthropod known only from Lower and Middle Cambrian rocks.
Stratigraphy: basal Heatherdale Shale, upper Normanville Group, mid-Botomian Stage, upper Lower Cambrian
Locality: old small quarry along the western side of Old Sellicks Hill Road, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia (35° 19’ 55.62" South latitude, 138° 28' 34.50" East longitude)
Detail of a window on the north side of the chapel by Abraham van Linge 1641.
University College is one of the oldest foundations in Oxford, but structurally what we see today dates mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries onwards. The chapel occupies the eastern half of the south wing of the main quadrangle (opposite the College's main entrance from High Street). It was heavily restored and Gothicised in 1862, but still retains its original 17th century woodwork, and more importantly a very fine glazing scheme of the same date.
The windows (aside from the two Victorian ones in the chancel) are the work of German artist Abraham van Linge and form a complete set dating from 1641, with six Old Testament subjects on both sides (plus one from the New Testament in the antechapel). All are executed mostly in enamel (as were most stained glass windows at this time) which is painted on rectangular panes of clear glass like a canvas, although a limited use of actual coloured glass ('pot metal') still features here for certain elements (for example more vividly coloured parts of drapery). Some of the most attractive features are the rich backgrounds with lush landscape and city-scapes often filling as much of the space as the figures illustrating the narrative. Glass of this unusually tolerant era in the Post Reformation is very rare outside of Oxford, and the windows here represent this phase of the medium at its finest.
University College isn't open as often as some Oxford colleges (it took me several visits before I finally managed to gain entry) and an entry fee and tour are required, but I had my own personal guide (one of the students) who was very knowledgeable and kindly left me to enjoy the chapel for as long as I wanted at the end.
Some animals and plants manipulate light to produce eye-catching structural colours. Hear interviews from the festival at physicsworld.com
WESTERN PACIFIC (Nov. 13, 2017) U.S. Navy Aviation Structural Airman Jordan Ashe, from Key West, Fla., performs nitrogen servicing on an E-2D Hawkeye, from the “Bluetails” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121, in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Nov. 13, 2017, in the Western Pacific. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. The U.S. Pacific Fleet has patrolled the Indo-Pacific routinely for more than 70 years promoting regional security, stability and prosperity. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Claypool)