The third change is in the detailing aspects of various systems, or how a building is "tied together" piece by piece to become one composite structure resisting earthquake forces. Some examples of ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Our world-class research program in earthquake and structural engineering focuses on understanding how key infrastructure stands up to extreme forces such as an earthquake. We simulate earthquake ...

To understand earthquakes we need to look at the structure of the Earth ... causing a build up of pressure. When these forces - friction or pressure - are released, they produce a violent jolt ...

Rabat - A team of researchers from Morocco, Italy, and Germany has identified the geological fault likely responsible for the ...

Sometimes, they use rubber foundations to absorb some of the force coming from the earthquake's tremors ... work with pupils to further explore the structure of the Earth. Pupils could investigate ...

A tsunami warning was issued for Japan's southern island prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday morning after a strong earthquake near ... of this tsunami evacuation structure in Naha.