The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...

BOISE, Idaho — A 6.5 magnitude earthquake approximately 40 miles outside of Challis rattled Idaho and six surrounding states Tuesday evening. The biggest earthquake preceding this one was in 1983.

Withdrawal of India's new earthquake map raises concerns about overestimated seismic risks and impacts on infrastructure in the Himalayas.

A just-adopted version of the Uniform Building Code (UBC) will have a significant impact on the design and construction of buildings in the Seattle area and throughout the West Coast. The 1997 UBC ...

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazard maps with ...

Dehradun: The Union govt's decision to roll back India's newly introduced seismic zonation map and revised earthquake design code has triggered concer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acapulco's beachfront condo towers were devastated by Hurricane Otis. Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP via Getty Images Acapulco wasn’t ...

This study investigated the seismic response of Rigid Wall-Flexible Roof Diaphragm (RWFD) buildings under extreme ground shaking was studied. RWFD buildings are a type of low-rise industrial ...

This past Saturday, the world awoke to yet another horrific natural disaster, an8.8 magnitude earthquake right off the coast of Chile near Concepcion. It’s only been 2 days since the deadly quake and ...

Because of a design error, the new student recreation and wellness building at UNLV needs a major retrofit to meet the code for withstanding earthquakes, according to the university's legal team and ...

Pandemics and wildfires have left earthquakes behind in the threat matrix, but they still loom large. Engineer David Bonowitz has this Perspective on what’s essential in earthquake design. This week ...