Earthquake

The team arrived in Mexico City a week after the M7.1 earthquake struck the central Mexican state of Puebla.

While Peru's building codes are now quite good, many commercial structures in the region predate them and most residential structures in the country are unlikely to have been built in compliance.

Recovery from a major earthquake, or indeed any extreme event, is always a lengthy process, even for wealthy and developed countries. An earthquake fades from the headlines after a few weeks, but recovery in the impacted region can continue for years.

In August 2016 we blogged about the earthquake that had struck central Italy a few days earlier and the extensive damage done to the traditional unreinforced masonry structures of the region.

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents awoke to the shaking of a massive M7.8 earthquake. Structures throughout the city were destroyed, and for at least four days, 50–60 fires burned and devastated the shattered city.

Ductility is a materials property that describes the extent to which a material (or structure) can undergo large deformations without failing.

At 5.59 a.m. local time on November 22, a powerful earthquake hit 37 km (23 miles) east-southeast of Namie in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture; strong tremors were felt as far away as Tokyo, 270 km (168 miles) to the south.

While India experiences a wide variety of natural catastrophes, it is not considered an earthquake-prone country, when in fact, it is.

For anyone following the rapid increase in the frequency of earthquakes in Oklahoma attributed to the injection of oil extraction wastewater deep into the ground, the story just took a couple of interesting turns.

In the early hours of August 24, 2016, 100 km northeast of Rome, a strong and shallow magnitude 6.2 earthquake and a series of aftershocks rattled a portion of the Apennine Mountains in central Italy, wreaking disaster on a cluster of towns and villages, particularly the areas of Amatrice, Accumoli, Norcia, and Pescara del Tronto.