PORTLAND, Ore. -- For the first time, there are national standards for buildings in tsunami zones. Engineers and academics have been working on the standards, and Wednesday they released them at a ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers has developed a new edition of ASCE 7-16, the first to include a chapter on tsunami hazards, in addition to chapters on seismic, wind, and flood hazards. The ...

Secure access. Since the primary role of the building is to serve as an elementary school, TCF Architecture designed several security measures to ensure that the safe refuge can be accessed by the ...

Business; American Society of Civil Engineers Issues First-ever Tsunami-safe Building Standards. The tsunami standards are only for steel-reinforced concrete buildings in “inundation zones ...

University of Washington engineers develop ‘breakaway’ tsunami-resistant buildings, prepping for ‘The Big One’ by Monica Nickelsburg on November 9, 2017 at 9:44 am November 9, 2017 at 9:52 am ...

Bad as it will be whenever the Cascadia Subduction Zone next comes unstuck, there are steps we can begin taking now to ensure most outer coast residents survive to pick ...

Because the buildings are literally grown from the ocean environment, the hope is that they’d be more resistant to the damage caused by a tsunami. Not too long ago, Westerners might have been ...

Chuck Wallace discusses tsunami mitigation measures in Grays Harbor County, Wash., including its plans for a vertical evacuation, tsunami-engineered, safe haven building.

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami ...

They can try to outrun the inevitable tsunami and reach high ground two miles away. Or they can hunker down in a two-story building that wasn’t designed to withstand an unstoppable wall of water.

Here’s your tsunami safety guide for WA’s coast By Karlee Van De Venter. Updated May 19, 2023 ... damage buildings or knock people down. Washington state uses MyShake, ...