For Nicolas Luco, earthquakes are literally a family business. The son of an earthquake engineer, the 38-year old Luco earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering and now works at the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...

A team of civil engineering students will have seven minutes to place metal rods into an intricate, wooden structure. When they finish, the building must withstand an earthquake simulated by a shake ...

Kyoto University researchers have identified a "stopping phase" in seismic data that occurs when an earthquake hits a barrier ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County is thinking ahead when it comes to protecting the Burnside Bridge in the event of a major earthquake. The Burnside Bridge Community Task Force plans to ...

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(TNS) -- University of Texas researchers have been awarded a $13.7 million federal grant to develop a software platform and other cybertools to help engineers construct buildings, levees, bridges, ...

Our attendees include researchers, practitioners and students, and our presentations are at the nexus of earth science, engineering and computation. Through collaboration, we want to transition ...

An article on Futurism about how engineering earthquake-proof buildings could have saved lives in the Sept. 20 earthquake in Mexico City interviews Andrew Whittaker, professor of civil, structural and ...

In this blog we tend to focus on the benefits and opportunities that arise when using virtual prototyping. However, in real life we well know that any situation bears not only opportunities but also ...