⎯ Hazard mitigation and structural dynamics have been important additions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. UCIST (University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables) has worked toward improving educational opportunities in this area for nearly 10 years. For the past 8 years, the US National Science Foundation has sponsored a cyberenvironment project referred to as the Network...

The Web not only distributes classically organized teaching material such as overheads, lecture notes and books, but also encourages new ways of publication and provides the means for content which could not have been printed on paper. In the article we present a tool for teaching earthquake engineering an Earthquake Engineering Slide Information System (EASY). It uses information technology to...

The Kutch Earthquake of January 26, 2001 in Gujarat, India, caused the destruction of a large number of modern 4 to 10-storied buildings. After this earthquake, doubts arose about our professional practices, building by-laws, construction materials, building codes and education for civil engineers and architects. It led to large number of short-term courses and workshops, revision of the seismi...

There is great enthusiasm about the potential of computers for enhancing student learning in science and engineering. The Structural Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has initiated the Webshaker Pilot Project with the goal of facilitating accessibility to live, on-demand, experimental testing earthquake engineering applications. The project is presented in...

On 3 April 2017, a Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred in Botswana, representing the secondstrongest earthquake registered since 1949. Such an intraplate event occurred in a low seismic hazard area and was suspected to be an artificial earthquake induced by nearby anthropogenic activities (gas extraction). The possible relation between anthropogenic activities and the earthquake occurrence has been qual...

In a previous study, we have calculated the usable road distance in the southern coastal area of Iwate Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. In this context, a usable road is one on which at least one vehicle has been probed during the observation period. If the accumulative usable distance up to September 30, 2011 is considered as 100%, then the percentage of the usable road distanc...

Early detection and early warning are of great importance in giant landslide monitoring because of the unexpectedness and concealed nature of large-scale landslides. In China, the western mountainous areas are prone to landslides and feature many giant complex landslides, especially following the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008. This work concentrates on a new technique, known as the “hybrid-SAR te...

Clustered events are usually deemed as feature when several spatial point processes are overlaid in a region. They can be perceived either as a precursor that may induce a major event to come or as offspring triggered by a major event. Hence, the detection of clustered events from point processes may help to predict a forthcoming major event or to study the process caused by a major event. Neve...

The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society was established in 1990 with its main objective to promote and advance the practice of earthquake engineering and engineering seismology in Australia. In the decade or so since its establishment the Society has had some successes in this regard as well as some disappointments. In this paper, the author will highlight these along with research and ot...