A magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Yakutat, Alaska, has generated over 160 aftershocks in 24 hours, with shaking felt across southeastern Alaska and into Yukon and British Columbia, raising concern for ageing port, pipeline and road embankment infrastructure on soft coastal sediments. USGS reports shallow crustal rupture along the Fairweather–Queen Charlotte transform system, with peak ground accelerations locally exceeding typical design levels for older structures. Geotechnical teams are prioritising rapid reconnaissance of slope stability, liquefaction-prone deltaic deposits and critical lifelines, including fuel terminals and regional airstrips.

Prolonged storms in Vietnam have triggered one of the most severe sequences of rainfall-induced hazards in decades, with extensive flooding and more than a dozen landslides reported across Lam Dong province and neighbouring highland areas. Intense, long-duration rainfall on steep, highly weathered slopes has caused rapid slope failures, debris flows and road embankment collapses, cutting key mountain highways and isolating several rural communities. Geotechnical teams now face urgent stabilisation of saturated cut slopes, clearance of landslide debris from narrow carriageways, and reassessment of drainage and slope design criteria for future extreme events.

Record monsoon floods and landslides have killed more than 600 people across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with Sri Lanka’s central highlands and Indonesia’s West Sumatra and South Sulawesi provinces suffering major slope failures. Prolonged rainfall well above seasonal averages has triggered debris flows, embankment breaches and riverbank collapses, overwhelming drainage canals and older flood defences in low-lying urban areas. Geotechnical teams are prioritising emergency slope stabilisation, rapid debris clearance on key highways and reassessment of design rainfall and factor-of-safety assumptions for cut slopes and retaining structures.