Fair weather with breezy trades are in place across Guam and the southern CNMI but a shear line is dropping southward through ...

A University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ...

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

However, Mishra clarified that the earthquakes in Delhi and Bihar are unrelated, explaining that such events "depend on the rock shearing strength, which differs between the two states." ...

Some of the most earthquake-prone parts of the United States are also the most populated; on average, southern California ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

They identified resilience, a concept that is now ubiquitous throughout earthquake engineering and multi-hazards ... a structural system consisting of concrete-filled composite steel plate shear walls ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

The seismic upgrades would reinforce all City Hall buildings to a life-safety standard and allow for a "higher probability of a safe exit during an earthquake." Shear walls similar to those at the ...

Earthquakes generate two types of waves. Primary waves, or P waves, are the first waves produced by a quake, and move the ground in the same direction that the wave is moving. Shear waves ...