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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo on Thursday, Dec. 21, for earthquake tests that could help lead to millions of buildings nationwide being safer from ...

The outdoor location is crucial for tests like these: The UC San Diego shake table is the only place in the world where ...

UC San Diego’s earthquake simulator, one of the two biggest shake tables in the world, is scheduled to test the tallest full-scale building ever built on an earthquake simulator. The NSF-funded ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Crews have started constructing a test foundation as part of the earthquake protection measures for the Burnside Bridge project. A 10-foot-wide test shaft is being built in Tom ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

Mehdi "Saiid" Saiidi held the third in a series of three bridge shake table tests Oct. 5. The high amplitude tests determine if the bridge model is durable enough to withstand powerful earthquakes.

Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million more ...

MIAMI, Okla. - In a bizarre coincidence, researchers in Ottawa County began a series of earthquake tests on Wednesday, the same day the second-strongest earthquake on record in Oklahoma shook the ...