A team of civil engineering students will have seven minutes to place metal rods into an intricate, wooden structure. When they finish, the building must withstand an earthquake simulated by a ...

Buildings that rock during an earthquake and return to plumb would withstand seismic shaking better than structural designs commonly used in vulnerable zones of California and elsewhere. A ...

After a massive earthquake struck central Mexico, horrifying images of collapsed buildings emerged and had many Los Angeles residents wondering if that could happen here. One expert said yes.

Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault ...

When the world’s deadliest earthquake in a decade struck northern Syria and southern Turkey, many blamed fragile infrastructure and unfortunately, they may be right. The magnitude of building ...

Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re) part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Safehub, a provider of seismic sensor and risk ...

Concrete buildings Older concrete buildings are also particularly prone to collapse in major earthquakes because many were not constructed with strong enough steel framing to keep them in place.

It was 12 seconds of shaking that felt like a lifetime. The Sylmar temblor that struck 50 years ago was a wake-up call that changed building safety in Los Angeles.

This report describes earthquake-simulator experiments of a scaled model of a prototype fluoride-salt cooled high-temperature nuclear reactor.