The Earthquake Engineering Lab is home to our three biaxial shake tables as well as our 6-degree-of-freedom table. The building includes 29,000 square feet of laboratory, office and auditorium space.

Earthquakes and landslides are famously difficult to predict and prepare for. By studying a miniature version of the ground ...

Big earthquakes remain unpredictable and often devastating, but new technology is paving the way for a groundbreaking way to ...

The subhead on the Times Union’s story about the seismic event read: “Houses Tremble, Theatres Empty and Folks Near Panic as Ma Earth Does Gentle Shimmy." ...

This new experimental capability will inform the DOE’s specific interests in facility safety, but also will be available to a broad spectrum of earthquake safety stakeholders. The main test floor of ...

When comparing the original laser signal with the light that exits the fiber optic cable, researchers can determine the strength of the seismic wave by checking how much the beam was distorted. Data ...

Whenever a quake — big or small — occurs, it’s a good time to check on earthquake kits and make sure to have the MyShake app downloaded. The app, created by Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, gave ...