Preparing San Francisco for the next disaster, an earthquake
After Japan’s 6.7 deadly tremor, emergency personnel in San Francisco are confident the city is prepared for a disaster. The [...]
Mandatory Seismic Retrofit program might be coming to Mountain View
Last Tuesday majority of Mountain View City Council agreed the city should adopt a mandatory seismic retrofit program to prevent [...]
New Artificial Intelligence System Capable of Forecasting Aftershocks
Researchers at Harvard University with google developed an artificial intelligence system (AI) capable of forecasting aftershocks from earthquakes. Researchers [...]
Yesterday’s Quake Was a Reminder That the “Big One” Can Happen at any Time
At 7:33 Southern California experience 4.4 quake 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It was centered about 3 [...]
How Safe is Your Child’s School Building?
In Washington over the summer structural engineers were busy inspecting school buildings to see what level of seismic risk [...]
Seven of this Month’s Eight Monster Shakers Occurred Around The Ring of Fire
August has a been a shaky month, what does that mean? We have had a lot of seismic activity [...]
Engineers Need to Build for The Long Run
A team of researchers from Colombia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, University of California, University of California at Riverside and the [...]
7.3 Earthquake Strikes Venezuelan Coast
A 7.3 earthquake struck on Tuesday off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. So far no injuries or deaths were reported. [...]