The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The region is primed for powerful quakes, with a particularly strong one called the Big One ...

The Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box system provides an unprecedented experimental facility for evaluating the complex manner in which such structural systems as buildings and bridges interact with the ...

I had experienced a couple of earthquakes ... scale. If you understand the logarithmic basis of the Richter Scale — that a 9.0 quake is ten times bigger than an 8.0 magnitude quake but 1,000 times ...