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Scientists create a steel sphere device that could protect buildings from earthquakes without electricityInnovative researchers have created an innovative seismic damper that utilizes steel balls and friction to mitigate the vibrations caused b...- Around 500,000 earthquakes are recorded across world every year, key to limit massive destructions may be liked to unique move in 1970s. Here's what experts are sayingEarthquakes are among the greatest global challenges for the safety of structures. Existing buildings constructed before the introduction o...
- What makes earthquakes so deadly?Colombia and Venezuela experienced deadly earthquakes due to tectonic plate friction. The Nazca plate sliding beneath the South American pl...
- Potential Nankai Trough megaquake fatality estimate 300,000, Japan plans to keep it under 60,000, an 80% reductionJapan aims to reduce the projected death toll from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake by 80 per cent and cut structural damage by 50 per c...
- Myanmar earthquake: A nation unprepared for disasterMyanmar, already weakened by four years of civil war, faces new hardships following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 1,600 ...
- Why is Taiwan so exposed to earthquakes and so well prepared to withstand them?Taiwan experienced its most potent earthquake in 25 years, resulting in at least nine fatalities, numerous injuries, and significant infras...
- China earthquake death toll rises to 149, two still missing after a weekLocal authorities attributed the severity of the damage to the shallowness of the quake. The thrust-type rupture of the earthquake and the ...
- Are tall buildings really more vulnerable to earthquakes? Here is what experts sayA series of tremors hit Delhi-NCR after seismic disturbances were identified in Nepal. Seven quakes were recorded, with five classified as ...
- Death toll in Indonesia earthquake rises to 310Indonesia's bureau of meteorology, the BMKG, warned of a danger of landslides, particularly in the event of heavy rain, as 25 aftershocks w...
- India working with 27 countries on earthquake early-warning systemThe warning could be the issued some seconds before the earthquake strikes. India is also planning to launch a satellite to track the chang...
- 4,000 aftershocks rattle China's earthquake-hit XinjiangFour thousand aftershocks have been recorded in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the area.
- India-origin billionaires to build 1,200 houses in NepalTwo Indian-origin billionaires in the UK have offered to build 1,200 quake-resistant houses in the affected villages of the country.
- Nepal earthquake: Why Newari houses fell so easily to quakeKathmandu to Bhaktapur, Patan to Sankhu -the four cultural seats of the country -it's mostly the old era, mud-brick and mortar homes that f...
- Engineers to guide residents on quake-resistant constructionsGovernment has prepared a concrete plan to register private structural engineers so that people could hire them when they build houses and ...
- 50 districts in Uttar Pradesh quake-proneThe NIDM has divided the state into three zones, with areas bordering Nepal and Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand figuring in Zone-IV.
- NGRI scientists to study Nepal earthquakeThe information and knowledge obtained through the analyses would be helpful in understanding the earthquake dynamics and identify the eart...
- IIT to train professionals on quake-resistant constructionsIndian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar said that it will impart training to civil engineers and professionals on making earthquake safe...
- Quake-proofing IndiaVulnerable poor need steps to mitigate the impact of a possible quake.
- Strong Iran quake kills 4, sends tremors over GulfA strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai.
- China to probe collapsed schools' construction qualityChina's Ministry for Housing and Urban and Rural Construction has reportedly decided to probe the construction quality of the schools which...
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