An engineer on the ground in Christchurch says that New Zealand s seismic retrofit code and/or construction methods should be strengthened based on the damage to recently upgraded buildings. Many ...
Floating on land: this storm drain was pushed up through the road in Christchurch by liquefaction caused by the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (Courtesy: Martin Luff/CC BY-SA 2.0) Contrary to ...
Professor Cubrinovski was five years old when a massive tremor hit his home city Skopje, in Macedonia, in 1963, causing over ...
Soil liquefaction is a ground response during earthquakes in which the ground turns from solid into a fluid medium similar to quicksand and detrimental to structures. The 2010 Canterbury earthquake ...
El Cerrito, Calif. -- Details of an earthquake that rocked the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand in February 2011 may transform the way scientists assess the potential threat of fault ...
Senior Lecturer in Active Tectonics and Geomorphology, The University of Melbourne At risk of being accused of being some sort of sinister harbinger of earthquakes, I must confess I happened to be en ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Newly uncovered details about the earthquake that rocked New Zealand in February may offer grim ...
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