From 1940 to 1970, nearly every school project built in California received Field Act certification, according to state architect records. The failure to fully enforce school earthquake safety ...

Published: August 17, 2006. By KATHERINE FELSHOW Reporter Contributor. While many college students are waiting tables or scooping ice cream for the summer, 24 students in Erie Community College's ...

Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

Few major policy decisions occur during a 60-day session, but six measures could set the stage for 2023: ∙ Continue the Seismic School Safety Project and make the results public.

Local seismologists say a massively destructive earthquake could happen in our lifetime. School districts across Western Washington are taking this threat seriously, reviewing emergency protocols ...

For school districts such as Aberdeen, the need for additional funding for capital projects is real, but not an easy ask. RELATED: History won’t let us forget we’re due for mega earthquake ...

Monitoring earthquakes is tricky business. They occur very sporadically in both space and time, so to record them you need a continuously operating measurement network. Such networks are ...

Rutgers Prep seniors Nikila Kakarla and Christine Oak make paper cranes for Architecture for Humanity and the Students Rebuild Project. FRANKLIN TWP. — When an earthquake hit Japan, students at ...

Of Washington state’s 9,000 school buildings, only 232 have been built since 2004 when earthquake building codes were updated. In addition, 37 school campuses that are located in tsunami ...