Earthquake

Liquefaction caused unprecedented losses in and around Christchurch, New Zealand, during major earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

Five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

Canterbury―the largest city in New Zealand's South Island―made headlines around the world in September 2010 when a magnitude 7.1 temblor struck near Darfield, and again six months later when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake devastated the city.

GeoHazards International (GHI) is an independent California-based charity with a mission to promote the adoption of modern building codes, land-use planning, science and engineering education, and innovative risk reduction techniques among the world’s poor and underserved communities.

The M8.3 Illapel earthquake that struck the coast of Chile near Santiago late on Wednesday, September 16, serves as a reminder that the western coast of South America is one of the most seismically active regions of the world.

Only a couple of decades ago, Vietnam was recovering from years of war and was among the poorest countries in the world.

It was one of those late nights in office a few days after I moved to Singapore, when I felt slight vibrations on the floor. Having lived in San Francisco, the first thing that came to mind was; is it an Earthquake?

You can't forecast earthquakes the way you can hurricanes or floods, but Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems may be the next best thing.

My London colleague Tristan Lloyd blogged recently about the UK-based Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT), which was then busy initiating its response to the April 25 earthquake near Gorkha in Nepal. EEFIT sent observers to the region to observe earthquake damage and collect data so they could report findings to the wider engineering community.

Fracking and the injection of waste water from oil extraction into disposal wells are hot topics at the moment. The principal concerns are their possible human health and environmental impacts, particularly "man-made earthquakes."