How Well Can Buildings Withstand Big Earthquakes?
EL CERRITO, Calif., Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) — How much damage will certain steel-frame, earthquake-resistant buildings sustain when a large temblor strikes? It’s a complicated, multifaceted question, and researchers from the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Pau, France, have answered it with unprecedented specificity using a new modeling protocol. The results involve supercomputer simulations of what would happen to specific areas of greater Los Angeles in specific earthquake scenarios and have been published in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, the premier scientific journal dedicated to earthquake research. “This study has brought together state-of-the-art 3-D simulation tools in earthquake engineering and seismology to address important questions that people living in seismically active regions around the world worry about,” said Dr. Swaminathan Krishnan, a postdoctoral
