Earthquake

We hear a lot about hurricanes in the Caribbean, but a lesser known risk is from earthquakes.

Puerto Rico's January 7, 2020, Mw 6.4 earthquake highlighted Caribbean seismic risk.

Earthquakes in New South Wales are generally weak and infrequent—but can cause significant losses.

As the Astros and Yankees head into Game 4 of the ALCS, we're reminded of a World Series game out in California between local teams 30 years ago, when an M6.9 earthquake shook Candlestick Park.

AIR has been using the Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) for earthquake damage estimation for many models developed since the 1990s.

Palu, a city of more than 330,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, was struck by a major earthquake and tsunami one year ago on September 28, 2018.

Before there were accepted scientific explanations for them, earthquakes were generally blamed on angry gods or the behavior of enormous mythical creatures.

Tsunamis are a coastal phenomenon, and New Zealand is vulnerable to local and regional tsunamis as well as tsunamis from distant trans-ocean basin earthquakes.

Southern California was just rocked by two major earthquakes only 34 hours and ~7 miles (11 km) apart in the region between the Searles Valley and Ridgecrest.

AIR has a long and proud history of sending out engineering teams to conduct damage surveys in the wake of major catastrophe events.