Earthquake-resistant technology may soon become simpler, cheaper and far more reliable thanks to a newly patented steel ...

The proposed framework combines machine learning and earthquake engineering to prioritize high-risk buildings, optimizing ...

Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, but this new invention has the potential to mitigate some of that damage ...

Civil engineering professor Moussa Leblouba from the University of Sharjah in the UAE has developed a simple device designed ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University tested a 10-story, cold-framed steel building for seismic safety on Monday morning. The 10-story ...

The U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC) has unveiled the USRC Earthquake Building Rating System. This first-of-its-kind performance rating is based on decades of earthquake engineering research and ...

Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related deaths and financial losses in the past decades. According to a recent ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — On March 28, a magnitude (M) 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended over 400 kilometers from north to south. Said to be ...

The two small earthquakes that hit New Jersey this week may have rattled the region’s nerves but resulted in no reported damage. Damaging earthquakes are very rare in the New York City region, though ...