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China will intensify efforts in 2026 to improve earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation, emergency response and ...

Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

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If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

Ross Boulanger is a distinguished professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, focusing on geotechnical earthquake engineering. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Some forms of engineering deal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed. Multnomah County ...