A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model ...

When designing a new structure or making upgrades to existing ones, architects and engineers prepare for them to be impacted ...

Electrical equipment housed within auxiliary buildings of nuclear power plants—such as control panels, transformers, and ...

In an effort to improve the design of structures to better withstand earthquakes, researchers at UCLA are developing testing and monitoring equipment that will serve as the 'eyes and ears' of a ...

Structural integrity is an important part of resilience, but not the only one. Buildings can resist ground shaking with no ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...

Supershear earthquakes are more common than previously believed, some scientists say — carrying potentially profound risk for communities across California.

Come December, owners of thousands of presumed concrete buildings in San Francisco will be asked to take part in a screening ...