• Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes...
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    Efforts to manage earthquake risks involve prediction, forecasting, and preparedness, including seismic retrofitting and earthquake engineering to design structures...
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    prices of supplies. Earthquake engineering involves designing structures to withstand hazardous earthquake exposures. Earthquake engineering is a sub-discipline...
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    The 1976 Tangshan earthquake (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān dà dìzhèn; lit. 'Great Tangshan earthquake') was a Mw 7.6 earthquake that hit the region...
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    While no structure can be entirely impervious to earthquake damage, the goal of earthquake engineering is to erect structures that fare better during seismic...
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    Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the...
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    first earthquake studied scientifically for its effects over a large area, it led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering. The earthquake...
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    Structural engineering specialties for buildings include: Earthquake engineering Façade engineering Fire engineering Roof engineering Tower engineering Wind...
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    instrument is essential to understand how an earthquake affects man-made structures, through earthquake engineering. The recordings of such instruments are...
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    where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates. The primary purpose of a seismometer is to locate the initiating points of earthquake epicenters...
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    The 1994 Northridge earthquake affected the Los Angeles area of California on January 17, 1994, at 04:30:55 PST. The epicenter of the moment magnitude...
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    slope from the earthquake's epicenter, snapping the cables as it passed. Atterberg limits Dry quicksand Earthflow Earthquake engineering Fluidization Liquefaction...
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  • and Software Engineering. The primary focus of Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) is coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation...
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    On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was...
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    On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern...
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  • site setting up temporary seismometers before the end of 1988. Earthquake engineering experts scrutinized building construction styles and found fault...
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    March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula...
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  • The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a leading technical society in dissemination of earthquake risk and earthquake engineering research...
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  • Megathrust earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip...
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  • large earthquakes. PGA is an important parameter (also known as an intensity measure) for earthquake engineering, The design basis earthquake ground...
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    The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also known as the Bhuj earthquake, occurred on 26 January at 08:46 am IST. The epicentre was about 9 km south-southwest of...
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    integrity. Base isolation is one of the most powerful tools of earthquake engineering pertaining to the passive structural vibration control technologies...
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  • magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize...
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    Francisco earthquake 1971 San Fernando earthquake 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in popular culture 1994 Northridge earthquake Earthquake engineering List of...
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    construction. Engineering portal Civil engineering Deep Foundations Institute Earthquake engineering Earth structure Effective stress Engineering geology Geological...
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  • Garhwal Earthquake of Oct. 20, 1991 (PDF), EERI Special Earthquake Report, vol. 26, National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering, pp. 1–3 Thakur...
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    Engineer Design Earthquake engineering Engineer Engineering economics Engineering education Engineering education research Environmental engineering science Global...
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    major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC, 21 February). The Mw6.2 (ML6.3) earthquake struck...
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  • the effects of an earthquake at a given location. This is in contrast with the seismic magnitude usually reported for an earthquake. Magnitude scales...
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    The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May 1960 was...
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