A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

Our aim is to produce the next generation of leaders in earthquake engineering risk assessment and natural disaster risk management who want to make an impact on the design of the built environment, ...

The Earthquake Engineering Lab is home to our three biaxial shake tables as well as our 6-degree-of-freedom table. The building includes 29,000 square feet of laboratory, office and auditorium space.

“Nuclear energy must be at the forefront of the effort to decarbonize the global economy and achieve the Paris 2050 climate goals,” says Faizan UI Haq Mir, postdoc associate in the Department of Civil ...

A section of the Salton Sea was hit by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

Many also work as consultants or as part of large-scale engineering industries. The Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering (EGE) research group is world-leading, hosting a unique multimillion-pound ...

How engineering can improve the chances of survival from an earthquake. Awareness of the hazards caused by earthquakes is probably higher in California than anywhere else in the world. Many ...

Bruneau and researchers across academia, including SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus George Lee and Andrei Reinhorn, professor emeritus and professor emeritus, published “A Framework to ...

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

Earthquake Magnitude Scale Magnitude Earthquake Effects Estimated Number Each Year 2.5 or less Usually not felt, but can be recorded by seismograph. Millions 2.5 to 5.4 Often felt, but only causes ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that all of its units took part in the first quarter Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) that took place in the City of Sta. Rosa, ...