What are the early warning signs of a landslide
Most landslides rarely happen without warning. What happens more often is that the warnings are there a hairline crack, a slight tilt, a new wet patch, a 4mm displacement and nobody is watching closely enough or continuously enough to catch them in time. In August 2025, a massive landslide sent 2.3 billion cubic feet […]
The Slope That Moved — and the System That Caught It
How a single GEO T20 device gave a mountain road authority 11 days of warning before a slope failure nobody expected. The road authority didn’t think the slope was particularly dangerous. It had been stable for years — no visible cracks, no reported movement, nothing that flagged in the annual inspection. The GEO T20 disagreed. […]
What is Hydrogeological Risk? A complete guide
Hydrogeological risk. It’s in every civil protection report, every municipal emergency plan, every geotechnical brief — and it’s one of those terms that a lot of people nod at without being entirely sure what it means. This guide is for those people. No jargon, no unnecessary complexity. Just a clear explanation of what it is, […]
Timelapse Camera vs Traditional CCTV for site monitoring
Last year, a project manager working on a road infrastructure project in northern Italy asked us: “Can’t we just put up a couple of CCTV cameras and call it done?“ It’s a fair question. CCTV is cheap, familiar, and easy to install. But after we explained what his slope actually needed — and what a […]