The ASCE's newly formed Subcommittee on Tsunami Loads and Effects are crafting new building standards for "tsunami loads and effects." ... Tsunami-Proof Buildings Targeted in New Standards Initiative.

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 ...

Buildings can be created to withstand the most powerful earthquakes, but designers remain largely powerless in thwarting the destructive forces of a tsunami, such as the one that slammed Japan's ...

There's a tiny community of researchers in the U.S. and around the world who are trying to make buildings tsunami-resistant, he says, but those the scientists have come up with some solid ideas.

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 ...

With no tsunami building codes, Stover said the state of California and Crescent City decided to prepare for the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years.

Crescent City was not the only West Coast port slammed by the tsunami, which was generated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan. The waves ripped apart docks and sank boats in Santa Cruz, Calif ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. —- Inside the cold and quiet and sterility ofthe O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, it’s hard to appreciatethe implications of the faux tsunami bearing down on a co… ...

By designing a new, raised City Hall that would also be earthquake resistant, Cannon Beach, Ore., hopes to build the nation’s first tsunami-resistant building.

The first building constructed in North America to save people from a tsunami will be dedicated on Saturday in Westport.

WESTPORT — Ground has been broken for a new school building on the Washington coast at Westport. Officials say the structure is designed to be tsunami-proof. KOMO-TV reported that the planned ...

With no tsunami building codes, Stover said the state of California and Crescent City decided to prepare for the kind of tsunami expected to hit every 50 years.