NTT is continuing its North American data center expansion plans with the launch of a unique Earthquake resistant center in Silicon Valley. As part of NTT’s bullish expansion plans in North America, ...

How do engineers prepare buildings to withstand earthquakes? According to experts in Spain, one approach to this problem is to consider a building as you would a living being. How do engineers prepare ...

The performance of a well-designed layer of sand, geo-grid, geo-textiles and composites like layer of sand mixed with shredded tyre (rubber) as low-cost base isolators is studied in shake table tests ...

Much of the world's population lives and works in seismically active areas, with little protection from earthquakes. Fortunately, engineers have found that building with rubber is a surprisingly ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake just hit in Virginia, and aftershocks shook the East coast. And according to USGS, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake should only cause moderate damage, and $100 million in economic ...

In 1989, the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake hit northern California; it was responsible for dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries, in addition to hurting the local economy with high ...