Most homeowners think about earthquakes in abstract terms - something that happens somewhere else, or something a good ...

The main reason for extensive earthquake damage in developing countries is the collapse of unreinforced masonry houses. Because of large variations in material properties and construction accuracy, as ...

Local emergency managers agree that a recent New Yorker article was more than a little over the top in implying that everything west of Interstate 5 will be “toast” after the next Cascadia megaquake ...

How officials in Portland, Oregon, have gone about treating the city’s sizable stock of earthquake-vulnerable unreinforced masonry buildings—roughly 1,600 of them in total including churches, ...

Keywords: Unreinforced masonry, flexible diaphragms, out-of-plane loading, earthquake simulator tests, seismic assessment, performance based assessment. Abstract: The main goal of this study was to ...

Of the 113 Wellington buildings with dangerous facades, all but one has completed their reinforcing work within their deadline. Building owners have had 18 months to secure their Unreinforced Masonry ...

Collapsing unreinforced masonry buildings killed dozens of shoppers and bus users in February. Prefer us on Google Forty people died in the February earthquake because of the failure of unreinforced ...

A number of building owners on Jackson St in Petone have been forced to deal with unreinforced masonry. Photo: SUPPLIED / The-Dominion-Post Prefer us on Google Two Lower Hutt building owners have ...

The Northwest is threatened by earthquakes far more destructive than anything Washington state has experienced in modern times, a danger lawmakers have largely disregarded. In the first part of a ...

During an earthquake it’s not the shaking that injures, maims, and kills; it’s what the shaking does to cause buildings, bridges, and other structures to fail. Large pieces, such as parapet walls, can ...