A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

According to Bruneau, the researchers developed the concept after embarking on a retreat where they set out to identify the concept that would have the biggest impact on earthquake engineering over ...

an expert in structural and earthquake engineering. While Friday’s quake may have been what he called “small,” it underscores the region’s vulnerability to larger, more destructive tremors.

“Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do.” The adage is very much on the minds of seismologists and engineers who worry about what might happen if India were rocked by a powerful quak ...