Concrete 3D printing is revolutionizing the building industry by cutting costs and construction time. However, most current ...

Still recovering from the fallout of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japan was hit with back to back earthquakes April 14 and 15, registering a 6.2 and 7 magnitude, respectively. The following day, a ...

Two schools in Vancouver are being replaced so they will meet modern seismic standards, part of what Premier John Horgan says is a new provincewide focus on making schools safe in the event of ...

Montreal is among the most vulnerable cities in Canada to earthquakes — second behind only Vancouver — but can its buildings withstand a major tremor? A risk modeling firm, AIR Worldwide, estimated ...

Simulations still can't predict exactly when an earthquake will happen, but with the incredible processing power of modern exascale supercomputers, they can now predict how they will happen and how ...

When a big earthquake hits, every second counts. So imagine having 30, 60, or even 90 seconds of warning that the ground is about to give way. Though it may not sound like much, it's enough time to ...

A city primed for “The Big One” might seem a perfect place to test a concrete spray that could keep walls from collapsing in an earthquake. That’s precisely what’s happening at one elementary school, ...

It's been 15 years, but Victoria's John Cassidy still clearly remembers the shaking he felt from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Washington State. "Yeah I was actually at home sick that day so I was at ...

Two new collaborations between researchers at U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) hopes to improve the safety, resilience and ...