If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

MOSCOW, 29 July (BelTA - TV BRICS) - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has introduced a new earthquake-resistant building design featuring state-of-the-art damping ...

Hyderabad:In the wake of Wednesday's earthquake, architects believe that high-rises and key installations should be constructed using modern earthquake-resistant techniques. According to S.P. Anchuri, ...

Anyone who’s ever tried to cut open a coconut knows how tough its shell is. Now that strength is being used by a German researcher as inspiration to design tougher concrete to help construct buildings ...

Structural trauma caused by earthquakes can wreak havoc on roads and bridges, particularly when they are poorly engineered and constructed. Even in cases when bridges and overpasses avoid complete ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — As any good structural engineer knows, materials matter. Saturday at the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, it was masking tape and hot glue. Ten teams from five elementary ...

Located on the most active earthquake belt in the world, the island nation of Japan is constantly shaking, or bracing itself for the next big quake. Six years ago a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — On March 28, a magnitude (M) 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended over 400 kilometers from north to south. Said to be ...