Ensuring safety does not end with the issuance of a building permit. Buildings made under older seismic codes should be ...

This week’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble. Earthquakes of such force ...

The imperative for such innovation in that field is massive. For instance, despite lasting only 20 seconds, the 1995 earthquake that struck Kobe, Japan destroyed 100,000 buildings, and the 2011 ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In this study, strong motions and their impact on building are analyzed in detail. Specifically, we developed regional-scale maps ...

Earthquakes, among the most catastrophic natural disasters, wield a profound impact on extensive areas, causing harm to settlements and, consequently, human lives. These seismic events substantially ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

Following the recession of tides and the appearance of additional patches of land in several parts of quake-hit Sarangani ...

Mexico sits on one of the most seismically restless patches of Earth. Squeezed between the Cocos, Pacific, and North American tectonic plates, the country experiences hundreds of measurable tremors ...

Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related deaths and financial losses in the past decades. According to a recent ...