Did you feel it? Expanding use of an earthquake crowdsourcing tool

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) crowdsourcing platform Did You Feel It? (DYFI) rapidly transforms people's earthquake ...
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‘Earthquake on a chip’ uses phonon lasers to supercharge mobile efficiency

Engineers have turned the physics of earthquakes into a tool for shrinking and supercharging the chips inside phones and ...

Scientists Just Created Tiny Earthquakes Inside a Microchip

Engineers have learned how to create tiny earthquakes on a microchip—and it could change how smartphones are built. Engineers ...
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Rolls-Royce turns to aseismic bearings to de-risk small nuclear reactor during earthquakes

Rolls-Royce SMR, the company tasked with building the next generation of nuclear reactors in ...
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Engineering for the 'Big One'

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...
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Lori Dengler | Dams and earthquakes: Water hazards don’t just come from tsunamis

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...