After a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto, Japan, on Tuesday last week, an elevated bridge was left badly misaligned with its deck buckling upward, yet it did not completely collapse. To the naked ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete structures of the past weren’t built to withstand the fury of an earthquake but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue University could change that. A ...

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 ...

Who: Anyone interested in the earthquake and its impacts. The webinar is especially relevant to those in the transportation, energy, water or wastewater sectors. What: The EERI Kahramanmaraş ...

It depends on the height of the buildings. It's not the just the strength. You have to make sure that the building is able to sway because during the earthquake, basically the ground is shaking. It ...

Studying how people are injured inside buildings during earthquakes could improve safety and survival. In 2023, the city of Antakya in southern Türkiye was one of the hardest hit by a M7.8 temblor, ...

Earthquake engineering encompasses the study of how seismic forces originate, propagate and interact with civil infrastructure, and how buildings, bridges, dams and lifeline systems can be designed or ...