What are the major impacts of the 1997 UBC on earthquake design, and how do they impact building layout and related issues? All of the code changes in the area of earthquake design originate in ...

Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they’ll use to test the future ...

An animated video that emerged online and was first spotted by Gizmodo shows various earthquake-proof bed designs that are scarier than an earthquake itself. The designs appear to be related to a ...

The new bridge will be earthquake-ready, so crews are digging a 10-foot-wide, 125-foot-deep hole to see how concrete supports ...

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Performance and functionality. It took two twentieth-century earthquakes to bring performance-based design front-and-center. Its origins date back to the mid-eighteenth-century BC when ...