The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...

Researchers at UC San Diego on Friday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.

These neighborhoods join several others in the Fresno-Clovis area already designated as “moderate” or “high” fire severity ...

Geologists are putting their skills to the test studying hidden threats that lie beneath the feet of thousands of Kansas ...

An upcoming webinar hosting by Seequent will delve deeper into the capabilities of their integrated offshore workflow, ...

Strengthening Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment in Kyrgyzstan: UN-SPIDER Leads Hands-On Training in Bishkek ...

Both help engineers design earthquake-resistant buildings by identifying areas more prone to stronger shaking. Hazard maps are shown for different time frames, known as return periods, which help ...

First, seismologists and earthquake engineers at the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, produce the National Seismic Hazard Model. These maps, based on research into earthquake sources such as ...

The internet was still in its early days when the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck in 1995. At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, it took more than half a day for on-the-ground ...

The data are used to create 3D models of surfaces. Geologic mappers, hydrologists and other scientists can use lidar and related data to track changes over time along coastlines and streambanks; at ...

Analysing them is improving the accuracy of earthquake hazard maps, especially for rare rumbles ... these markers help them to create 3D computer models of the rocks, so they can simulate what ...