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.

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

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

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 ...

The Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering research group is a team of world leading academics who are studying ways to improve the resilience of infrastructure to extreme events and make ...

Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing ...

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 ...