PORTLAND, Ore. — In Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the northwest side of the Burnside Bridge, engineers began drilling a 125-foot test shaft as part of crucial seismic testing for Portland's earthquake ...

One of the most predominant factors impacting today's construction industry is the demand to construct buildings that can resist seismic forces and accommodate for the building movements. Architects ...

Last month, a seismic shake test was conducted on a 10-story wooden structure—the world’s tallest building to be tested on a shake table earthquake simulator. The goal? To validate the strength of ...

Public and private partners support the test to prove mass timber's seismic resilience. OREGON CITY, ORE. / ACCESSWIRE / May 10, 2023 / Practical testing is underway at the University of California ...

A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a covert nuclear weapons test, as widely alleged on social media and some mainstream news outlets in October 2024, a period of ...

A federal judge has ruled that Livingston Parish cannot enforce a moratorium preventing a global gas supply company from conducting seismic tests or building test wells in Lake Maurepas. Air Products, ...