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Incheon Airport buildings fail seismic standards, risk collapse

More than 10 buildings at Incheon International Airport have been found to be at risk of collapse during an earthquake due to ...
Vancouver Is Awesome

City of Vancouver to develop inventory of buildings to rate earthquake risk

While current models show a one-in-five chance of a ... strong earthquake in the next 50 years, we could have an earthquake ...
Medicine Buffalo

Bruneau recognized for contributions to seismic design and steel structural systems by ASCE

Bruneau, who is also a distinguished member of ASCE—the highest honor the society can bestow—was recognized for “his contributions to advancing seismic design and improving the safety and resilience ...
Rappler

After Pampanga and Sarangani, what’s needed to make buildings resilient?

Ensuring safety does not end with the issuance of a building permit. Buildings made under older seismic codes should be retrofitted.

Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins—now we know why

Sedimentary basins—depressions in Earth's crust caused by tectonic activity—tend to be flat and are favored places to build ...

How Egypt’s Great Pyramid Survived Thousands of Years of Earthquakes

The Great Pyramid of Khufu was completed between approximately 4,600 and 4,450 years ago. Since then, the 450-foot-tall ...
The Conversation

We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires

We live in an age of increasing wildfire disasters because more of us are living in places where wildfires and human development collide. Right now, fast-moving wildfires are forcing mass evacuations ...
GMA Network

DOST: LGUs, schools should provide earthquake-resilient housing designs

Local government units should provide residents with information on designing earthquake-resilient houses that can also be ...

How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cairo earthquake in 1992, which dislodged some of the ...