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Tehran Earthquake Linked to Iran Nuclear Testing? What Analysts Say

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck northern Iran on Friday, as Israel continued its barrage of airstrikes on Iranian targets. According to Tasnim News Agency, the earthquake originated at a depth of 10 ...
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Earthquake simulator to test 10-story steel-framed building

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...
Yahoo

Iran: An earthquake — or a secret underground nuclear test?

At 10:45 pm on Saturday, the University of Tehran's seismography centre announced that a 4.4-magnitude earthquake had shaken the city of Aradan in Iran's Semnan province, with tremors also felt in ...
Tech Xplore

How can we make buildings more resilient before—and after—earthquakes? We put one solution to the test

This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.
KPBS

An earthquake shake table gives recycled steel a chance to test its metal

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...
PV Tech

GameChange Solar earthquake tracker testing yields no ‘meaningful power loss’ in most trials

GameChange Solar tested its ‘SpeedClamp’ system at orientations of zero and 60 degrees. Image: GameChange Solar. US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar has completed testing of its Genius Tracker ...