Hemanth Siriki

The Caribbean region has the potential to generate large, destructive earthquakes.

AIR engineers visited Puerto Rico to inspect structural damage from the recent earthquakes.

The notion that 10% of high-rise structures in San Francisco could collapse during a major earthquake has unsurprisingly gotten a great deal of attention. Is it true?

Earlier this year an article in The New York Times speculated about the “high” probability of steel high-rise buildings in San Francisco built before the 1994 Northridge earthquake collapsing in a future quake.

Earlier this year The New York Times published three articles regarding the seismic hazard and safety concerns for tall buildings, particularly those in San Francisco, which stimulated discussion both in the public domain and in the engineering community.