Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

A grad student at UAF is helping lead an Alaska Earthquake Center project aimed at developing a new method for better locating offshore earthquakes that could be integrated into a possible future ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

Some of the most earthquake-prone parts of the United States are also the most populated; on average, southern California experiences around 10,000 earthquakes each year. While only several hundred of ...