Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full ...

As a result, the 1868 Joint Committee on Earthquakes honored Gaynor, citing his structure as an exemplar of earthquake-resistant building. Ironically, exemplar or no, the building did not survive ...

These changes first began a century ago, when a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Yokohama, Japan, killed 140,000 people and toppled hundreds of thousands of structures in 1923.

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The 5-foot balsa-wood structures were judged based on performance under severe earthquake simulation—as well as the annual income of the building based on rental income, initial costs and seismic ...

Following another deadly earthquake in 1995, Japan began focusing on retrofitting older architecture to be more resilient to earthquakes. Of course, none of this is foolproof.

Japan now boasts a new tallest skyscraper, the Mori JP Tower. Rising to a height of 325.2 m (1,066 ft) in Tokyo, the building is designed to reduce its grid-based energy usage with sustainability ...

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 ...

Real Estate News, Earthquake in Delhi NCR: In light of the recent 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Delhi NCR, discussions have been raised regarding the resilience of buildings in the region.

But a code introduced in 1981 known as “shin-taishin,” or the New Earthquake Resistant Building Standard Amendment — a direct response to the offshore Miyagi earthquake three years earlier ...