News tagged with ground motions
Predicted ground motions for great earthquake in Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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A new study evaluates expected ground motion in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver from earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 - 9.0, providing engineers and policymakers with a new tool to build or retrofit structures to withstand seismic ...
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Catching quakes with laptops
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- ...
Bridges will rock -- safely -- with new quake design
May 09, 2007 |
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Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER.
Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Betelgeuse -- the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) -- is a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1000 times larger than our Sun. It is ...
VLBA Movies Reveal New Details of Cosmic Jets
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Astronomers have known for decades that supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies can shoot out jets of subatomic particles at tremendous speeds. However, details about the physics of such jets, including how they ...
Quake Research to Provide Rare Glimpse of How Structures Collapse
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Structural engineers at the University at Buffalo are conducting some of the most comprehensive experiments ever attempted to develop methods of evaluating and designing steel buildings so that they will be less vulnerable ...
Japanese government plans to scientifically test oft-repeated earthquake instructions
Jun 14, 2009 |
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"When an earthquake strikes, hide under a table." "Don't rush outside immediately." Are these actually life-saving actions in an earthquake? The Education, Science and Technology Ministry plans to see if such commonly given ...
Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2008 |
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In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU Copenh ...
Seismic Testing of Wood-Frame Townhouse Makes History
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2006 |
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Unprecedented. That's how earthquake engineers describe today's seismic test at the University at Buffalo. Most simulated earthquake tests feature neither full-scale structures nor ground motions in three directions, ...
Ground-based observatories join forces with Venus Express
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2007 |
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Data from Venus Express, which has been revealing new and crucial details about our closest planetary neighbour, will now be augmented by synoptic data from a coordinated ground-based observation campaign.
Pulselike and Cracklike Ruptures in Earthquake Experiments
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Lab experiments that mimic the way the ground moves during destructive earthquakes require some sophisticated equipment, and they yield valuable insights. California Institute of Technology scientists studying how sliding ...
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