SURVEY: Has numerical modelling reached a level that makes site investigation and interpretation obsolete for tunnel segment/cross-passage design?

The advancement of various software for tunnel design has the ability to do many things that used to be impossible. Will such high powered rational methods/tools ever be able to replace empirical data? Or, will it make it more useful? Such questions led me to develop this survey, because these are interesting questions. 
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Is Guillaume Giraud, an associate professor at Michigan State Univ correct?

http://www.examiner.com/article/supervolcano-beneath-yellowstone-could-wipe-out-the-us-cause-worldwide-damage

Evaluation of Tunnel Face Stability - an inspirational video on TBM FEM by Luca Manfrin

http://youtu.be/a_re-PWAF8s

Richard J. Lisle's new book.

Deadly Washington Landslide, another time geologists can say "we told you so!"

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2L0R020140404

Geo-related purpose

I intend this blog to be a dump of all things geologically oriented to engineering, technology, or science-related.