California's Hayward Fault Revealed: Most Dangerous Urban Fault In America? Dec 15, 2007
Earthquake engineering concerns will be stressed, including population density, vulnerable infrastructure, and lifelines. Constraints on the Rupture of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake. (Science Daily)
Japan Nuclear Energy Drive Compromised by Conflicts of Interest in Safety Dec 13, 2007
We have made certain that the plant's earthquake engineering is safe,'' he says. The damage an earthquake can wreak on a nuclear plant was shown in July at Tokyo Electric's Kashiwazaki Kariwa power station in Niigata prefecture. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Armenia: In Capitals Construction Boom, What Goes Up May Come Down Nov 21, 2007
"Nothing will be left of Yerevan if a seven-magnitude earthquake strikes," warned Armenian Association for Earthquake Engineering Chairman Mikayel Melkumian. "There will be about 300,000 casualties. Eighty percent of the buildings will collapse.". (EurasiaNet.org)
Giant Wave Experiment Reveals Poorly Understood Behavior Of Tsunamis Oct 18, 2007
She is the lead investigator from Princeton on the study of tsunami-induced sediment transport, part of the larger NSF-sponsored Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program. The experimental wave bed consisted of two flumes, each about 7 feet wide with a base of natural Oregon beach sand. (Science Daily)
ASU-Jonesboro: Earthquake expert to share research with ASU College of Engineering Sep 21, 2007
Pezeshk is considered a national expert in the area of earthquake engineering and currently serves on the advisory board on earthquake issues for the governor of tennessee. . (Truman Democrat, AR)
Santa Clara course helps socially conscious entrepreneurs succeed Aug 28, 2007
"It will cost up to 20 percent more than a traditional house," said Hausler, who holds a doctorate in earthquake engineering from UC Berkeley and learned to build houses at her father's masonry outside Chicago. It may be one of the core lessons the participants take home: Doing good and being pragmatic do not have to be mutually exclusive. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
World's Highest-resolution Computer Display Reaches 220 Million Pixels In Resolution Aug 28, 2007
In San Diego, the OptIPortal is deployed on the second floor of Atkinson Hall, next to the offices of the NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center (NEESit), which supports the NSF-funded George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and its 15 sites around the country. Structural engineering simulations require a massive amount of data processing and visualization, especially if you need to crunch data coming in from all of the NEES participating sites, said Kuester. (Science Daily)
UMR professor: ‘Yoga is a way of life’ Jul 24, 2007
Each year, SPF awards 1,100 and a plaque to young engineers who specialize in geotechnical engineering or geotechnical earthquake engineering. The research award and the excellence prize for practice are the two annual awards. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
The Japan syndrome Jul 20, 2007
But Japan, perhaps the world leader in earthquake engineering, experienced a rude awakening after hearing similar claims. Besides, San Onofre's domes don't concern us as much as the pools beside them, in which rods of nuclear waste, also called spent fuel, are stored. (North County Times)
Japan Nuclear Plant Suffers Malfunctions Jul 18, 2007
Masanori Hamada, a professor of earthquake engineering at Tokyo's Waseda University, said the quake showed the government should push to increase the quake-resistance standards of its reactors. "It's unthinkable that water leaks and fire could be triggered so easily," said Hamada. (Newsmax)
Fear of vast damage by quakes drops Jun 25, 2007
Deierlein, deputy director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, is among dozens of consultants, professors and government scientists who toiled to understand implications of data from Taiwan, Turkey and other recent deadly quakes. The result was a set of five "attenuation" equations that can be used to predict how much a given quake, in a given spot, will make different types of ground shudder miles away. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Bridges Will Rock -- Safely -- With New Earthquake Resistant Design May 11, 2007
One of the world's most versatile earthquake engineering laboratories, it is a facility within the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Our approach is unconventional, counterintuitive," admits Michel Bruneau, Ph. (Science Daily)
Wireless Sensors Limit Earthquake Damage Apr 17, 2007
D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless sensors with special controls called magnetorheological dampers to limit damage from a simulated earthquake load. Her demonstration is the first step toward implementing wireless sensors for structural control in real buildings and structures, enabling less manpower requirements and far less remodeling of existing... (Science Daily)
Virtual Research On Earthquake Resistant Structures Apr 13, 2007
In addition to providing visualization services for the shake table experiments, SDSC is also home to the NEESit Services Center (NEESit) which is developing and maintaining a state-of-the-art grid to meet the cyberinfrastructure needs of the earthquake engineering community, including the UCSD facility and 14 other collaborating experimental sites across the nation. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation. (Science Daily)
SUNY honors 5 area professors Mar 21, 2007
George Lee, a professor of engineering and considered a pioneer in earthquake engineering research and structural engineering. He has helped to build cross-national bridges in the field of earthquake research worldwide. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Engineers Shake Up The World As They Perform A First Feb 26, 2007
The lab is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded member of the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The lab is used for undergraduate, graduate work and research and is the only facility of its kind in the world. (Science Daily)
Bacteria could steady buildings against earthquakes Feb 22, 2007
The centrifuge is part of the national Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, funded by the National Science Foundation. . (EurekAlert!)
A Crystal Ball Of Earthquakes Feb 16, 2007
She studied earthquake engineering in California as an undergraduate, and is now using her research to build better forecasting maps in Canada and other countries. Within the next five years, she and her collaborators hope to produce 10-year forecasts for several countries. (Science Daily)
Reach for the skies, but get quake-smart » Feb 15, 2007
DK Paul, head, Earthquake Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee points out, A microzonation study has revealed that buildings in the Capital especially private buildings the Trans-Yamuna and Walled City areas will suffer maximum damage during an earthquake. This is mainly because structural safety norms have been openly flouted in the case of non-engineering constructions. (Hindustan Times, India)
Collapse study begins Feb 9, 2007
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, the company that will review the safety of the building, has expertise in a variety of fields, including structural evaluation, failure investigation, earthquake engineering, repair design and construction, and structural testing. Among its work, the firm investigated the walkway collapse at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 and was hired to do a safety audit of the Big Dig project in Boston. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A Renovated Memorial Stadium Will be Safe Jan 30, 2007
The design of the stadium retrofit - as also that for the SAHPC - has gone through multiple layers of independent technical review by (for example) Degenkolb Engineers, Comartin Consulting, several professors of structural engineering (including Jack Moehle, the Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and Prof. Jonathan Bray, Geotechnical Engineer and one of the world's leading experts on fault rupture mechanics), and by the Geotechnical Engineers of Record, Geomatrix... (GoCyberBears.com)
Quake events Jan 29, 2007
At 3 p.m., the MSSC will judge the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute s Collegiate EQ Engineering Poster Contest. Feb. 2: Earthquakes Mean Business will be the topic for a free seminar at 8:30 a.m. and workshops at 1:30 p.m. at the AT Center Auditorium in St. Louis. (Skieston Standard Democrat, MO)
* Mother died protecting her kids in quake Dec 28, 2006
Wen Kuo-liang (), a chief researcher at the National Center for Research Earthquake Engineering, said it was difficult to determine whether stronger earthquakes would occur in the near future. He said a 5 magnitude earthquake had occurred near the epicenter of the first quake four years ago. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Landslide tsunamis: Huge and deadly:Biggest one on record was a third of a mile tall Dec 22, 2006
Fritz is an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been in Corvallis since October, conducting experiments in the tsunami wave basin at OSU. His research is funded by the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, which is part of the National Science Foundation. The OSU laboratory is the largest in the world for studying the effects of tsunamis. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
China, India make joint declaration Nov 22, 2006
They agreed to launch joint projects in the areas of earthquake engineering, climate change, weather forecasting and nano-technology, with a focus on advance materials and biotechnology and medicines. They also consented to promote cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, consistent with their respective international commitments. (People's Daily Online, China)
Pakistan earthquake, one year on Oct 6, 2006
After January he was able to concentrate on setting up a training programme to teach earthquake engineering principles. He blames the high death toll in Pakistan on the way houses were built. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
World's Largest Scientific Computing Grid Sustains A Million Jobs Per Month Sep 28, 2006
(December 27, 2000) -- Leading members of the earthquake engineering community met recently with nationally recognized computer scientists in a workshop at the University of Southern California Information Sciences. . (Science Daily)
What's Shaking? UCLA Egineers to Demolish Bridge Foundation for Seismic Research UCLA, Aug. 21 Aug 22, 2006
Students and researchers from UCLA Engineering's George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, or NEES, also are participants. The site is located at Imperial Highway and Sundale Avenue, near LAX.. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Earthquake-Proof Pipelines Tested in the Lab Jul 21, 2006
The lab, which is part of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), aims to engineer pipeline systems that bend and move not snap and rupture with the changing geography generated by an earthquake (). Clifford Roblee of Davis, California, is the executive director of NEES. He calls pipelines lifelines, because they carry critical resources such as water and natural gas that keep communities running after a major earthquake. (National Geographic)
Earthquake-resistant building in Yogya Jul 14, 2006
He built them using a manual published by the Indonesian Islamic University (UII) Center for Earthquake Engineering, Dynamic Effect and Disaster Studies (CEEDEDS) in cooperation with the Japanese government. Choisun said he only learned that his house was built as an earthquake-resistant building later when a group of scientists and journalists from Japan visited the village to survey his house and the other two. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Nature can ruin best laid plans Jun 30, 2006
O'Rourke, a former president of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, has provided assistance around the world on infrastructure design and disaster preparation. He has studied how infrastructure fared during such disasters as the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and earthquakes in California. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Seismic Shock Absorbers For Woodframe Houses Jun 22, 2006
24 million international project called NEESWood, funded by the National Science Foundation through its George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program. The goal of NEESWood is to safely increase the height of woodframe buildings in active seismic zones through the development of a design approach that considers a wide range of performance levels -- from completely undamaged to almost collapsing. (Science Daily)
Living with and learning from earthquake Jun 13, 2006
Since the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906, anti-earthquake engineering techniques have continuously improved ... Investigations of past earthquakes and their effects on various types of structures have provided vital information to help structural engineers, architects and building officials improve their understanding of earthquake engineering. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Williams worked with authorities on al-Qaida links Jun 6, 2006
"You have a virulent nest of al-Qaida operatives who have been there since 1996. Several of those operatives from Toronto were mentioned in a BOLO (Be on the Lookout) report issued in 2004. In the Division of Earthquake Engineering (at McMaster University), there are 16 professors; 15 of them are from Cairo, and they all have their advanced degrees from McMaster. We've discovered that some of these professors have ties to Islamic Jihad in Egypt. You're seeing the first wave of arrests.". In the... (WorldNetDaily)
U.S. Quake Warning Systems Lag May 30, 2006
"If the capital of the United States were Los Angeles, we would have had an early warning system a long time ago," said Tom Heaton, professor of earthquake engineering at the California Institute of Technology and developer of one of the test systems. It's not the first time the idea has surfaced in the United States. (Wired News)
U.S. Ports Vulnerable To Devastating Earthquake Damage May 24, 2006
The team will perform these tests at four labs that are a part of the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), a program initiated by NSF to advance the field of earthquake engineering with a shared network of experimental sites and tools, an archive of earthquake data and earthquake engineering simulation software. The team will also investigate applying the same approach to managing risks from other natural hazards, including hurricanes. (Science Daily)
'Girls' Steal The Show May 23, 2006
REVIEW / Diablo's 'Go Girls' steals thunder of quake ballet. " Ashraf Habibullah, Diablo board president, who bankrolled the establishment of the company in 1994, made his fortune creating software that tests structures to withstand earthquakes and other environmental disasters. It seems only logical that he might commission a dance to honor the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco disaster. If only the dance were artistically groundbreaking. Nikolai Kabaniaev has created a piece that depicts a... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Sarwidi: Fighting Merapi terror with an emergency shelter Apr 26, 2006
"There are at least three kinds of threat that Mt. Merapi gives us when it erupts: hot lava, cold lava, and hot clouds," says Sarwidi, who is the Director of the Center for Earthquake Engineering, Dynamic Effect, and Disaster Studies (CEEDEDS) at the Yogyakarta-based Indonesian Islamic University (UII). Of the three, according to Sarwidi, the last is considered the most dreadful. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Devastation of 1906 quake is presented in UB exhibit Apr 24, 2006
"A City in Ruins: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fires of 1906" showcases in graphic images why engineers at UB's Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering - one of the most sophisticated earthquake engineering laboratories in the nation - are focused on reducing losses from earthquakes and other disasters ... "Our earthquake engineering center is here for a reason.". (Buffalo News)
New worm poses DoS attack threat Apr 21, 2006
Japan's Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center tests real houses under earthquake conditions. CEO and founder of Intellectual Ventures Nathan Myhrvold explains why "people will call me names.". (Yahoo News -- Computer Viruses & Worms)
The Great Quake 1906-2006 Apr 19, 2006
If there's a quake, what are you prepared to do (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Report: Rerun of San Francisco Quake Would Kill Thousands Apr 18, 2006
The latest report, prepared by the engineering firm in Mountain View, was commissioned by the earthquake conference's organizers: the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Seismological Society of America and California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Using computer models, the study estimated how a 1906-size earthquake would impact today's nine-county San Francisco Bay area, where the population has mushroomed to more than 7 million people. (Fox News)
Next big quake? Look South Apr 17, 2006
Engineering Professor Larry Kahn, one of 15 Georgia Tech faculty members engaged in earthquake engineering, says Atlanta has made progress in recent years to ready itself for a Charleston-like event. "Thirty years ago in Atlanta, school buildings and warehouses were still built of un-reinforced masonry, which would have been vulnerable to the kind of ground motion we'd get if there were another Charleston," he says. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
100 years after the Bay Area's great quake Apr 17, 2006
Kircher and his co-authors are private consultants affiliated with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in Oakland. The new assessment is meant to help emergency workers plan for the disaster, to assist engineers as they determine if building codes are strict enough, and to inform governments setting priorities for seismic retrofitting. (San Jose Mercury News)
Public can tour Stanford quake sites Apr 12, 2006
Printed copies of the maps are also available at the visitors center at Memorial Auditorium, the John H. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center and at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts. ADVERTISEMENT. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Agencies voice concerns over port expansion Apr 11, 2006
Some engineers, as well as Anchorage's Geotechnical Advisory Commission, have recommended that an independent panel of earthquake engineering experts review the port's preferred design as well as others that might be more friendly to fish. "What the corps needs to do is determine whether these (alternatives) are practicable (in terms of) cost, technology and logistics," Winn said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Scientists recreate action of '06 quake Mar 30, 2006
" The unprecedented scientific effort, described Tuesday by its creators, took two years and the combined power of supercomputers at four institutions, teams of geophysicists and mathematicians. The scientists will display the full reconstruction of the great quake's ground motions along all 300 miles of the fault during a major international conference starting in San Francisco on April 18, but Tuesday they released a vivid computer-created video showing in ominous colors of red, orange, yellow... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Large centrifuge helps researchers mimic effects of Katrina on levees Mar 22, 2006
Part of nationwide 'co-laboratory' of earthquake engineering facilities, the technology proves critical for studying soils beneath New Orleans ... The centrifuge is part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), an interconnected, nationally distributed system of 15 facilities for studying the effects of full-scale earthquake forces on structures and materials. (EurekAlert!)
Video Of New Orleans 17th Street Levee Model Illustrates Preliminary Katrina Findings Mar 19, 2006
The center is part of NSF s nationwide Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). Editor's Note: The original news release can be found. (Science Daily)
UB delving into study of extreme events Feb 22, 2006
"The focus on extreme events takes advantage of UB's diversified portfolio of research strengths," said Michel Bruneau, a professor of engineering and director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at UB.. "By combining our existing strengths, we can expand the boundaries of what we can accomplish to help combat terrorism and respond to other extreme situations," said Bruneau, a coordinator in UB's extreme events endeavor. (Buffalo News)
Levee modeling study to provide technical data for rebuilding New Orleans Feb 22, 2006
The center is part of NSF's nationwide Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). For more about NEES, including a three-minute video presenting an overview of the centrifuge, visit. (EurekAlert!)
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