Word: groundslip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a bustling anchorage for container ships tended by towering cranes on rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths that cost...
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