The FINANCIAL — Devastating earthquakes are a global phenomenon, as anyone in Nepal, Japan, or Indonesia can tell you. The consequences can be crushing: human lives are lost and confusion in everyday ...

The after-shocks of the Kahramanmaras earthquake in Turkey and closer-to-home disasters such as the Joshimath crisis have made a global impact, compelling us to look closer into available engineering ...

A new publication from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) provides a broad understanding of earthquakes and how they affect buildings. The new publication, Facts for Steel Buildings ...

Seismic retrofitting is the modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to earthquakes. Seismic retrofit techniques will ...

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. Researchers are now analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential use in constructing ...

OPINION: California's earthquake preparedness achievements were born from disaster. It now needs to do the same to counter ...

A five-day long programme for the engineers in earthquake-resistant construction techniques 'Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings' got concluded on Friday at Indian Institute of Technology, ...

How engineering can improve the chances of survival from an earthquake. Awareness of the hazards caused by earthquakes is probably higher in California than anywhere else in the world. Many buildings ...