The National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) yesterday said it is encouraging private homeowners to undergo an earthquake resistance evaluation, particularly if their house was ...

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Concrete 3D printing is revolutionizing the building industry by cutting costs and construction time. However, most current ...

The district’s new model weighs seismic risk as 90% of the prioritization score for buildings receiving seismic upgrades. It ...

After their more typical wood-framed homes burned, some are now rebuilding with non-combustible materials. And they’re ...

The concept of optimal structural design based on minimizing total expected cost has been well established since the pioneering work of N. C. Lind and E.

Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

Leaning out of the ground-floor window of her home on a quiet street in suburban Istanbul, Aylin Yilmaz knows the house she ...

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador ...

Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the state Capitol nears the end of a years-long, $598 million seismic ...