Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

Seismologists and earthquake engineers in Utah have long spoken of “the big one.” An earthquake somewhere along the Wasatch Fault could result in approximately 2,500 deaths, $33 billion in economic ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed. Multnomah County ...

If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, high temperature gas reactor, horizontal HTGR, reactor core, graphite block assembly, shake-table experiments, numerical simulations, analytical models Abstract: The ...

China will intensify efforts in 2026 to improve earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation, emergency response and ...

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