YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. ERIKA. IT’S RIGHT BEHIND THAT WALL THERE CAN PRODUCE ALL SORTS OF SCENARIOS. AND STUDENTS HERE, THEY TRAIN FOR THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIOS. TOTAL LOSS OF POWER, THOUGH THAT’S NOT ...

When a pilot learning to guide ships along the Mississippi River makes a mistake and crashes into a New Orleans wharf, the only thing that ends up damaged is his ego. That's because the mistakes ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out a detailed simulation showing how a common type of bridge fails during large-scale earthquakes. They modeled “I-shaped ...

After a succession of eight separate earthquake simulations, a 110-foot long, 200-ton concrete bridge model withstood a powerful jolting, three times the acceleration of the disastrous 1994 magnitude ...