Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

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 ...

In a development that could impact seismic codes, a team of researchers led by a Northeastern University engineering professor have developed a new method for defending buildings from earthquakes. The ...

NEW MADRID — At the New Madrid Historical Museum there’s an earthquake simulator where visitors get to play engineer. At their disposal are cylindrical wooden sticks and rectangular boards that can be ...

California has been hit with nearly 100 earthquakes over the last month, especially in the San Ramon area near Oakland. The post Decades of earthquake innovations have California as ‘Big One' ready as ...

Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes. Decades of learning from disasters, tightening ...

More than 13 years after the earthquake that devastated the city of Christchurch, the professional body Engineering New Zealand (formerly IPENZ) has upheld a complaint against Dr Alan Reay, whose ...

Bangkok Earthquake Today: An under construction 33-story high-rise building in Thailand's Bangkok collapsed on Friday during the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar. Thailand's Deputy ...