If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...
A team of UB engineering students placed third in a recent national earthquake engineering design competition. The 2008 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition, held last month during the annual ...
A deadly earthquake that reduced buildings to rubble in West Java, Indonesia has once again exposed the dangers of living in poorly built homes in one of the most seismically active zones on the ...
An article on Futurism about how engineering earthquake-proof buildings could have saved lives in the Sept. 20 earthquake in Mexico City interviews Andrew Whittaker, professor of civil, structural and ...
The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast - Copyright AFP Toshifumi KITAMURA The magnitude-7. ...
In the span of nine hours on Feb. 6, 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, killing tens of thousands and flattening some newer buildings that were supposedly ...
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How Japan’s Buildings Stand Tall Through Earthquakes
When a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, tsunami warnings echoed across parts of Japan, the US, and Russia. While fear and panic loomed in some regions, Japan ...
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