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San Francisco: New regulations for retrofitting concrete buildings are underway
- Jun, 14, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Other Structural News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United States, California , San Francisco
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
San Francisco city officials are actively engaged in retrofitting concrete buildings susceptible to collapse during seismic events according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) projections...
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A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit the border between Mexico and Guatemala: no injuries reported
- May, 12, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Other Structural Other News Structural Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Mexico, Suchiate
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
An earthquake of 6.4 magnitude shook the border region between Mexico and Guatemala early on Sunday 12th of May. The quake struck shortly before 6a.m. near the Mexican border town of Suchiate and its...
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Indonesia: 6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the eastern region
- Apr, 09, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Other Structural News On Natural Disasters/phenomena Other News
- Indonesia
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Tuesday 9th of April at 09.48 GMT, Indonesia's eastern region experienced a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter was near Halmahera Island in North Maluku province, at a depth of approximately...
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7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan: it was the most potent incident in a quarter-century
- Apr, 03, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Other Structural News On Natural Disasters/phenomena Other News
- Taiwan
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Wednesday 3rd of April in Taiwan took place the island's most intense earthquake over the last 25 years. This seismic event, measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, struck the east coast of the island...
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Greece: a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the western Peloponnese region
- Mar, 29, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Other Structural News On Natural Disasters/phenomena
- Greece, Peloponnese
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
On Friday 29th of March morning, the western Peloponnese region in southern Greece experienced a 5.7 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter of the quake was close to the Strofades islands while it was f...
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Balkan: a 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit the border area between Montenegro and Bosnia
- Mar, 14, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Structural Failures Other Structural News On Natural Disasters/phenomena
- Montenegro
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit on Thursday 14th of March 2024 the border area between Montenegro and Bosnia. Its epicenter was 30km from the town of Niksic (western Montenegro) and about 25km from th...
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Iran: 425 earthquakes struck in one month
- Mar, 13, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Other Structural News On Natural Disasters/phenomena
- Iran
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
According to the seismological networks of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Tehran, there have been 425 earthquakes recorded across the nation in one month, ending on February 19th. A...
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Novel computing model can detect structural damage with no physical intervention
- Jan, 31, 2024
- Bridge Management Bridges Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Performance-Based Design Structural Health Monitoring Structural Analysis Other Structural Soft Computing Applications News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry News On Software Other News Concrete Structures
- United States, Pennsylvania
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Researchers from Drexel University in Pennsylvania have developed a system that is believed to efficiently identify and evaluate problematic areas by integrating a novel machine learning approach wit...
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New study by EEFIT shed light on the main reason that cost 50,000 lives due to Turkey -Syria earthquake
- Feb, 07, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Structural Design Concrete Structures Other Structural News On Failures Other News
- Turkey
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
According to the study, conducted by the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT), the main reason that cost 50,000 lives due to the Turkey -Syria earthquake on February 6, 2023, is be...
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One year after the 7.8-magnitude catastrophic earthquake in Turkey-Syria
- Feb, 06, 2024
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Structural Design Other Structural Repair And Retrofit Of Structures News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Turkey
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
One year after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck on February 6th, Turkey struggles with the aftermath in its most severely affected areas where residents mourn lost loved ones and try to rebui...
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