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

“We want and plan to include directivity effects in the next generation of seismic hazard maps used in earthquake engineering ...

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.

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

“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 ...

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, ...

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

The Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering research group is a team of world leading academics who are studying ways to improve the resilience of infrastructure to extreme events and make ...

According to Bruneau, the researchers developed the concept after embarking on a retreat where they set out to identify the concept that would have the biggest impact on earthquake engineering over ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook throughout the Los Angeles area on Sunday, around 1 p.m. according to the U.S. Geological ...