CU Boulder News & Events: Advancing geotechnical engineering to support communities facing earthquakes
The conference will be held under the theme of ‘earthquake and megacities, with a focus on Tehran’. Seismology and Early Warning Systems, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Structural Earthquake ...
Renowned UC Engineering Professor Misko Cubrinovski is retiring after 20 years at UC and a 40-year career Professor Cubrinovski, who survived a major earthquake as a child in Macedonia, played a key ...
Tehran Times: Tehran to host 9th intl. conference on seismology, earthquake engineering
On 25 April 2015 at 11:56 NST, with a mighty shudder, the earth released the pent-up seismic energy trapped within in the form of an earthquake that lasted 55 seconds. That brief span of time was enough to cause thousands of deaths, injure several thousand people, bring down buildings and shanties alike, split apart roads, damage health facilities and schools, cause avalanches and landslides ...
Sagaing earthquake in Myanmar On 28 March 2025, two powerful earthquakes struck central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region near Mandalay. The first, with a magnitude of 7.7, occurred at 12:50 p.m. local time, followed by a second of magnitude 6.4 at 1:02 p.m. Multiple aftershocks have since been reported, disrupting ongoing rescue operations. As of 30 March 2025, the State Administration in Myanmar ...
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Port Vila on 17 December 2024, claimed 14 lives, destroyed critical infrastructure, and displaced over 2000 people who needed to stay in evacuation centres or with host families for weeks after the earthquake. To this day, aftershocks are felt by the communities. The response began within moments of the earthquake.