Volunteers could sit inside the trailer and feel the sensations that take place during a high-magnitude quake.

A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model ...

Development technician Chad Justice, foreground, works with center director Bruce Kutter in the control room to chart the centrifuge data (seen on screen). Facility manager Dan Wilson is in the ...

A multi-disciplinary team has simulated the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date. Just before 8:00 a.m. local time on December 26, 2004, people in southeast Asia were starting ...

Keywords: Molten salt, pebble-bed reactors; graphite reflector; annular tanks; seismic behavior; fluid-structure interaction; base isolation; design recommendations. Abstract: This report describes ...

Computer scientists, mathematicians and geophysicists have optimized the SeisSol earthquake simulation software on the SuperMUC high performance computer to push its performance beyond the 'magical' ...

Keywords: Numerical simulations. Computer-based models. Disaster recovery. Disaster resiliency. Disaster resilient communities. Northridge, California earthquake ...

The University of California, Davis', Center for Geotechnical Modeling joins a national effort in earthquake simulation with the launch of the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering ...