The model projects what would happen from a single major earthquake, rather than a series of them. The deadliest and most destructive of the model’s three current scenarios would have an ...

The launch of the model on Sunday coincided with the 48th anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Tangshan in northern China, which killed at least 300,000 and levelled the city. The project ...

Stein is the co-founder of an international nonprofit called the Global Earthquake Model (GEM ... But as an open source project, all tinkerers and hackers are welcome, and OpenQuake is already ...

who is working on the project as part of her dissertation. Together, the pair diligently scrutinize the two-story 50-foot-by-23-foot model building inside and ... would withstand extreme conditions ...

Happily, there is a glimmer of such an effort emerging in the Global Earthquake Model project. The latest research findings often take several decades to make their way to practice. After ...

A report by university officials says the NEES project will allow earthquake engineering the use of model-based simulation and integrate facilities across the nation via remote computer access.

While this model is being built for ... The ultimate hope is that the project reveals that a large wooden structure can be resilient to earthquakes, perhaps even performing better than a concrete ...

The new model, with data through 2008, does not include the magnitude-5.8 earthquake in central Virginia ... director of the nuclear safety project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, in ...

AIR Worldwide Corporation has announced it is sponsoring the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). The GEM project is a five-year project led by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ...