In an effort to improve the design of structures to better withstand earthquakes, researchers at UCLA are developing testing and monitoring equipment that will serve as the 'eyes and ears' of a ...

Colorado State University along with Simpson Strong-Tie and other partners successfully led the world’s largest earthquake shake table test in Japan yesterday, proving that midrise wood-frame ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — “We are creating our own earthquake,” Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

The primary cause of death in an earthquake is not the shaking ground but crumbling roofs, crashing walls and collapsing buildings. No deaths have been reported from the most recent 7.7 magnitude ...

The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake caused major damage to buildings along State Street. Credit: Gledhill Library / Santa Barbara Historical Museum photo After the 1925 earthquake devastated Santa ...

Now, scientists are studying this cataclysmic seismic event with the goal of devising new ways to reduce casualties in the future. According to Luis Ceferino, assistant professor of civil and ...