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How California’s Retrofit Ordinances Are Reshaping Seismic Engineering
- Apr, 14, 2025
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Seismic Effects Seismic Slope Stability Engineering Seismology Forensics Forensic Engineering
- United States, California
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
It’s one thing to follow a checklist. It’s another to deeply understand how a structure behaves when the ground begins to shake. California’s seismic story is full of lessons—from collapsed unreinfor...
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Indonesian landslide due to earthquake: rescuers focus on survivors
- Nov, 25, 2022
- Landslides Slope Stability Slope Stabilization Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Seismic Seismic Slope Stability Other Geotechnical
- Indonesia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia on Monday killing at least 272, more than a third of them children. On an increasingly urgent search, Indonesian rescuers narrowed their focus to a landslide...
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Kefalonia, Greece: Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake hits the island
- Sep, 26, 2022
- Landslides Slope Stability Slope Stabilization Other Geotechnical Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Seismic Seismic Slope Stability
- Greece
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit between the islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea on Thursday 8 September morning. The earthquake occurred a few minutes after 10:30 local time. There we...
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