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Historic temple restoration combines preservation and seismic engineering
- Jun, 15, 2026
- Seismic Earthquake Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Utah, Salt Lake City
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A major restoration and seismic stabilization project is nearing completion at the historic Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 382,207 sq ft Gothic Revival building, first opened in 1893 af...
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Kuju volcano study maps permeable windows for supercritical geothermal
- Oct, 18, 2025
- Geothermal Seismic Geophysics News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment presents high-resolution seismic evidence of supercritical fluid pathways near the volcanic brittle–ductile transition (BDT) beneath...
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How California’s Retrofit Ordinances Are Reshaping Seismic Engineering
- Apr, 14, 2025
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Seismic Effects Seismic Slope Stability Engineering Seismology Forensics Forensic Engineering
- United States, California
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
It’s one thing to follow a checklist. It’s another to deeply understand how a structure behaves when the ground begins to shake. California’s seismic story is full of lessons—from collapsed unreinfor...
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Second 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits western Afghanistan within a week
- Oct, 11, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Other Geotechnical Landslides
- Afghanistan
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A new 6.3 magnitude earthquake this morning came to hit the same region in Afghanistan as the one that suffered widespread destruction on Saturday. Furthermore, the 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Satur...
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Several countries provide support as Morocco is struck by 6.8-magnitude earthquake
- Sep, 11, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Other Geotechnical Seismic Soil Structure Interaction Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Engineering Seismology
- Morocco
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco at 11.11 p.m. on Friday, September 8, with an epicenter about 72 kilometers southwest of Marrakech. Furthermore, the shallow earthquake has so far caused at...
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6.3 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks shake Colombian capital
- Aug, 18, 2023
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Engineering Seismology Other Geotechnical
- Colombia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A strong earthquake, along with three aftershocks, rattled Colombia’s capital, Bogota, along with other cities on Thursday, August 18. Furthermore, the main shock measured a 6.3 moment magnitude acc...
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A 6.3-magnitude aftershock hits southern Turkey two weeks after the major earthquake of magnitude 7.8: 3 people killed and hundreds injured
- Feb, 23, 2023
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Seismic Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters
- Turkey
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The earthquakes that rocked both countries on February 6 were followed by tremors of magnitudes 6.4 and 5.8 that occurred on Monday February 20 in the southeast, close to the border with Syria. The t...
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At least 46,000 fatalities as a result of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
- Feb, 23, 2023
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Engineering Seismology
- Turkey
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Although the number of people who have died as a result of the powerful earthquake in Turkey and Syria has now surpassed 46,000, some survivors were still being pulled from the debris 11 days after t...
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UB earthquake engineers: building collapses in the Turkey-Syria earthquake were not unexpected
- Feb, 16, 2023
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Seismic Other Geotechnical
- Turkey
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A scene, shown in various videos, was taken following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tremors that devastated central Türkiye and northern Syria earlier this week and the pictures are hor...
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More than 20000 fatalities after Turkey-Syria earthquake
- Feb, 11, 2023
- Seismic Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Turkey
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
At least 20,000 people have now died as a result of the earthquakes that struck southwest Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. This number is expected to rise as rescue workers search through the deb...
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