If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

When one thinks of designing buildings to better withstand earthquakes, materials like flexible concrete may come to mind. However, a group of researchers led by engineer John van der Lindt from ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

MOSCOW, 29 July (BelTA - TV BRICS) - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has introduced a new earthquake-resistant building design featuring state-of-the-art damping ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

The February earthquake in Turkey and Syria was an enormous natural disaster, causing nearly 60,000 confirmed deaths in both countries, though most of them in Turkey. The magnitude of the Turkey quake ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) recently issued a draft of AISC 341, a standard that provides guidance on designing earthquake-resistant steel buildings and it is available for ...

Structural engineers usually commit to painstakingly put together fragments of materials when building, culminating into some of the most aesthetically appealing, and physically imposing skyscrapers ...

Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Scenes of ...