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Taipei 101’s impressive tuned mass damper
- Apr, 03, 2024
- General Civil General Construction Other Structural Other Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Vibration And Damping News On Products & Services Other News
- Taiwan, Taipei
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Taiwan was struck on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, by the most powerful earthquake it has experienced in the last 25 years, but Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest building, can be seen in video footage...
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Second 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits western Afghanistan within a week
- Oct, 11, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Other Geotechnical Landslides
- Afghanistan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A new 6.3 magnitude earthquake this morning came to hit the same region in Afghanistan as the one that suffered widespread destruction on Saturday. Furthermore, the 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Satur...
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Several countries provide support as Morocco is struck by 6.8-magnitude earthquake
- Sep, 11, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Other Geotechnical Seismic Soil Structure Interaction Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Engineering Seismology
- Morocco
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco at 11.11 p.m. on Friday, September 8, with an epicenter about 72 kilometers southwest of Marrakech. Furthermore, the shallow earthquake has so far caused at...
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6.3 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks shake Colombian capital
- Aug, 18, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Engineering Seismology Other Geotechnical
- Colombia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A strong earthquake, along with three aftershocks, rattled Colombia’s capital, Bogota, along with other cities on Thursday, August 18. Furthermore, the main shock measured a 6.3 moment magnitude acc...
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200 new geotechnical investigation and design software added to DCOdes
- Jun, 28, 2023
- Site Characterization & In-Situ Testing (General) Data Management Foundation Design / Construction Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Other Geotechnical
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Two hundred new software regarding geotechnical design and investigation, many of which are available for free, have been added to DCOdes. They include solutions for data management, site and labor...
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7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Sumatra island
- Apr, 24, 2023
- Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Other Geotechnical General Civil News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Indonesia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on April 24 and briefly triggered a tsunami warning, which was later lifted. More specifically, the earthquake’s focus was at a dep...
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Harry Bolton Seed: The founding father of geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Apr, 23, 2023
- Other Geotechnical Pile Foundations Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- United States
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Harry Bolton Seed was born in Bolton, England, on August 19, 1922. He spent his childhood in Lancashire and showed talent in sports and academics from an early age. At the age of 18, he chose a sch...
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CLaSH invites you to join us for the 2023 Land Surface Hazards Modeling Expo!
- Apr, 19, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering Landslides Slope Stability Risk & Reliability Soil Mechanics Other Geotechnical
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Center for Land-Surface Hazards (CLaSH) invites you to the 2023 Land Surface Hazards Modeling Expo, the first part of which will be held online on May 1-2. The Modeling Expo will take place in...
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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake strikes Northern California, U.S.A.
- Apr, 11, 2023
- Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Other Geotechnical General Civil News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- United States, California , Cobb
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake took place in Lake County, California, late on Tuesday. More specifically, the earthquake struck at 10.39 p.m., and was located 7.4 kilometers from northwest Cobb and rou...
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Earthquake-related building collapse in Turkey: A geotechnical investigation
- Mar, 06, 2023
- Laboratory Testing Standard Penetration Testing (Spt) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Turkey
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An expert committee will carry out a "geotechnical experiment" as part of the ground survey test in Kahramanmaraş, where 11 buildings were destroyed in the earthquake that struck Adana on February 6....
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