For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they warned, was the prevalence of tall concrete buildings atop soft soils — the ...

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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 ...

This chapter describes, in general terms for the less technical of this report’s readers, the basic behavior of liquefiable soils under cyclic loading, including the effects of material type, load ...

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 ...

To make sure our buildings and infrastructure are earthquake-safe, we must understand how seismic activity affects different structures. Miniature models and historical observations are helpful, but ...

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Venezuela's northern coast. Thirty-nine seconds later, a stronger 7.5 struck the same fault, a rare "doublet" that has killed at least 235 people and has seismologists ...

Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...