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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...