How engineering can improve the chances of survival from an earthquake. Awareness of the hazards caused by earthquakes is probably higher in California than anywhere else in the world. Many ...

For Nicolas Luco, earthquakes are literally a family business. The son of an earthquake engineer, the 38-year old Luco earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering and now works at the U.S. Geological ...

Earthquake-resistant engineering Date: April 22, 2010 Source: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Summary: How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes?

The 40,000 casualties from the Turkey and Syria earthquakes shows how earthquake engineering and ... Popular Science spoke with structural engineers who study ... We make them earthquake-resistant.

A $13.7 million federal grant will fund development of a Web platform, data repository and other tools engineers can use to simulate how various structure designs would hold up in an earthquake ...

WATCH Tokyo's Earthquake Resistant Buildings Sway During The Quake Some history: the 8.0 magnitude Mino-Owari earthquake of 1891 destroyed over 140,000 homes wikipedia commons ...

In areas with frequent seismic activity, earthquake-resistance is a major engineering consideration. Here are 7 earthquake-resistant designs.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete structures of the past weren’t built to withstand the fury of an earthquake but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue University could change that. A ...

University of Washington engineers develop ‘breakaway’ tsunami-resistant buildings, prepping for ‘The Big One’ by Monica Nickelsburg on November 9, 2017 at 9:44 am November 9, 2017 at 9:52 am ...

"In the 1999, a very big earthquake hit Taiwan," says Dr. Lin, an Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). At the moment of impact, Lin was ...