A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model ...

Canadian engineers have designed a new structural system that could significantly enhance the ability of high-rise buildings to withstand powerful earthquakes, ensuring not only the survival of the ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

In an effort to improve the design of structures to better withstand earthquakes, researchers at UCLA are developing testing and monitoring equipment that will serve as the 'eyes and ears' of a ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...

Canterbury University has done a large scale test on the sort of steel frame and concrete multistories common in New Zealand.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order on Monday aiming to help the state prepare for earthquakes. Executive Order 25-22 directs Oregon’s Department of ...