People living on the foothills of Burango hill in Taba village, Nyakinama sub-county in Kisoro district are living in fear of a possible catastrophe because of a giant crack in the ground.

"The risk from crack movements is now estimated to be considerable," the Icelandic Met Office said in a statement.

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

New slabs-on-ground crack when tensile stresses from restrained shrinkage exceed the concrete's strength. This type of early-age cracking occurs during the first few days of the slab's life and is ...

Vents may consist of a single, circular-shaped structure, a large elongated fissure or fracture (as seen on the diagram above) or a tiny ground crack. Nyiragongo is notorious for releasing large ...

Officials were investigating Sunday what caused a crack in a Colorado ski lift that ... from above and lowered people's equipment to the ground before using a rope equipped with a seat to lower ...

Officials were investigating Sunday what caused a crack in a Colorado ski lift that ... from above and lowered people's equipment to the ground before using a rope equipped with a seat to lower ...