| She wasn't sleepy and she still wanted to talk to him so she followed him to a small rockfall and watched as he rolled, then lit, a cigarette. |
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| On first inspection it looked none too promising with the roof of a nice 2m wide by 1m tall shaped passage giving out to a loose rockfall. |
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| They were 2,1km below ground when a tremor, measuring 2,9 on the Richter scale, caused the rockfall. |
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| Meanwhile, in Australia, some real men were hauled from a mine after being trapped by a rockfall following an earthquake. |
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| The scenic road was closed until further notice after a woman was killed and another seriously injured during a rockfall yesterday. |
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| This test concerns primarily the assessment of criteria which are not measurable and the practical suitability of the rockfall protection kit. |
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| Schematic view of the test setup in Walenstadt with crane, rockfall protection kit and video camera. |
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| This was the result of the heavy rains of August 2, 2000, which caused a rockfall from the cliff and damage to properties below. |
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| In this test the full service kinetic energy of the test body is to be transformed into deformation work of the rockfall protection kit. |
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| Probes by Codelco's engineers found the miners still alive 17 days after the rockfall. |
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| In principle the task of a rockfall protection kit is to stop moving rocks and blocks. |
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| It must be guaranteed that the supplied documentation corresponds to the installed rockfall protection kit. |
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| After a rockfall, a temporary protection had to be installed quickly for clearance work. |
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| A figure in green drab, binoculars to hand, picked his way across an awkward rockfall. |
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| However, there is still room for development in the areas of flood and rockfall protection. |
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| With rockfall protection kits against rockfalls, the circumstances applicable to foundations and anchorages are product-dependent. |
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| In the case of rockfall protection kits only the parts of the bearing structure above ground are tested on the basis of this guideline. |
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| If you're looking for an appropriate site, you'll want it to have sunshine, flat ground, and clean water nearby, plus protection from wind, avalanches, and rockfall. |
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| On April 25, 2006, the tremor triggered a rockfall inside a gold mine, and three of the 17 miners were unable to escape. |
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| It was proposed to build upon and refine the prototype, which would provide not only rockfall or landslide detection but also include a means of detecting a washout condition. |
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| The cantonal authorities are responsible for the translation of the guidelines and recommendations as well as the application of the list of available rockfall protection kits. |
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| As a result of the first project, a Rockfall Hazard and Risk Assessment system for the quantitative assessment of rockfall risks and prioritization of mitigative work was developed. |
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| The effective surface of a rockfall protection kit should remain as large as possible also after an event and be impaired as far as possible in its height only. |
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| After expiry of the transition period the Swiss confederation will only subsidize measures and projects containing tested and approved rockfall protection kits. |
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| The first official system for the testing of rockfall nets came into operation in Switzerland in 2002 in accordance with the corresponding guideline. |
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| This is why, for many years already, protective nets against rockfall have been supplementing the protective function of the forest, or replacing it in locations where no forest exists at all. |
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| It protects us from avalanches, rockfall, erosion and floodwaters, while being time habitat for animals and plants, recreation area and wood supplier. |
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| In the west tunnel of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, approximately 600 metres behind the drive in the east tunnel, the tunnel boring machine has been stationary for around four weeks on account of a rockfall. |
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| The rockfall protection kits to be tested in accordance with this guideline should be able to absorb the full kinetic energy of a test body falling onto them vertically. |
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