USC Engineering Insights – USC Viterbi’s Professor Bora Gencturk explains why meeting seismic code does not guarantee that a ...

The earthquake in Panama has reopened questions about building safety, the current seismic code, and construction oversight.

Laboratory tests of a novel externally stiffened ring connection show that welded joints between concrete-filled steel ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — "We are creating our own earthquake," Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego's Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

Mexico sits on one of the most seismically restless patches of Earth. Squeezed between the Cocos, Pacific, and North American tectonic plates, the country experiences hundreds of measurable tremors ...

Bruneau, who is also a distinguished member of ASCE—the highest honor the society can bestow—was recognized for “his contributions to advancing seismic design and improving the safety and resilience ...

A technical report on the failure of the Canterbury Television building during an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in February 2011 illustrates how important seismic codes are in saving lives.

On October 8, 2005, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake caused extensive destruction across J&K. The official post-earthquake documentation recorded nearly 29,000 houses as fully damaged and more than 83,000 ...