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Harry Bolton Seed: The founding father of geotechnical earthquake engineering

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...

CLaSH invites you to join us for the 2023 Land Surface Hazards Modeling Expo!

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...

Earthquake-related building collapse in Turkey: A geotechnical investigation

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....

At least 46,000 fatalities as a result of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Although the number of people who have died as a result of the powerful earthquake in Turkey and Syria has now surpassed 46,000, some survivors were still being pulled from the debris 11 days after t...

UB earthquake engineers: building collapses in the Turkey-Syria earthquake were not unexpected

A scene, shown in various videos, was taken following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors that devastated central Türkiye and northern Syria earlier this week and the pictures are hor...

More than 20000 fatalities after Turkey-Syria earthquake

At least 20,000 people have now died as a result of the earthquakes that struck southwest Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. This number is expected to rise as rescue workers search through the deb...

Powerful quake hits southern Turkey and Syria

Around 4 a.m. on Monday, one of the largest earthquakes in a century to hit south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, jolted locals out of their beds and sent tremors as far as Lebanon and Israel...

United States Society on Dams (USSD) publishes Report on Analysis of Seismic Deformations of Embankment Dams

In August 2022, USSD published a report on analysis of Seismic Deformation of Embankment Dams. Per the foreword, "This report is intended to provide guidance on the evaluation of seismic deformati...

Fleming Award: ground improvement for a seismically qualified facility is the winner

The delivery of an innovative ground engineering solution for a defense related production facility, which met an extensive range of performance criteria in challenging ground conditions, has won thi...

Indonesian landslide due to earthquake: rescuers focus on survivors

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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