This year’s 100th anniversary of the Santa Barbara earthquake has brought to my mind the two devastating quakes that struck ...

Earthquakes such as the one we recently experienced in Anchorage can certainly generate a lot of conversation about a range of issues such as how we were prepared in our homes, in our offices and ...

John D. Hooper is director of earthquake engineering at Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Inc. As a member of the committees instrumental in the modifications to the 1997 UBC, as well as the ...

The next step is bringing the innovation to commercialization. Engineers develop unbelievable new method for making ...

For the first time, the 2020 NEHRP provisions contain rules for the seismic design of cross-laminated timber wall systems. Photo courtesy Lendlease ...

An anti-seismic pillar used in the design of an old wooden house in Miyama, Kyoto prefecture. Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images.

A full-scale, two-story, light-frame wood townhouse building, designed according to modern US engineered seismic design requirements, was tested on two tri-axial shake tables operating in unison, as ...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is an international technical society of professionals including engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public officials and social ...

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Nuclear experts likely will reassess the design of dozens of U.S. reactors in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake in Virginia that drew scrutiny when the plant temporarily lost electricity from the grid.

Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. One upscale tower that fell may have had a design flaw, engineers said. By James Glanz and ...