performance. One of these is using an earthquake shaking table (a shaking table or shake table). This device is used for shaking scaled slopes, structural models...

The 3-D Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility or E-Defense (Japanese: E-ディフェンス) is an earthquake shaking table facility in Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan...

the shaking ground, thus protecting a building or non-building structure's integrity. Base isolation is one of the most powerful tools of earthquake engineering...

total energy released by an earthquake, and earthquakes vary in how much of that energy is converted to seismic shaking. The Tangshan quake, being relatively...

An earthquake – also called a quake, tremor, or temblor – is the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere...

structures that will not be damaged in minor shaking and will avoid serious damage or collapse in a major earthquake. A properly engineered structure does not...

"size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity or severity of ground shaking (quaking) caused...

cubical shelter, presented as an alternative to earthquake-proofing an entire building. Concurrent shake-table testing of two or more building models is a...

measure of an earthquake's strength or "size" was a subjective assessment of the intensity of shaking observed near the epicenter of the earthquake, categorized...

strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material...

2008. An earthquake shaking table was used in this seismic art intervention which was controlled by realtime reported Californian earthquakes detected...

most structures in its vicinity reported to be resistant to earthquake shaking. Strong shaking registering at VI on the Mercalli intensity scale was felt...

of an earthquake – an event occurring at greater or lesser depth. (The "Mw" scale is widely used.) The MM scale measures intensity of shaking, at any...

Simulator, or Shaking Table, can produce earthquake ground motions in six degrees of freedom, with motion in 3 axes. The shaking table is 5m x 5m and...

seismometer is an instrument that responds to ground displacement and shaking such as caused by quakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions. They are...

acceleration estimate of 0.14–0.18 g. The earthquake was assigned a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Shaking was felt across much of Alaska and...

predicts a 90 percent chance of an earthquake of 6.0 or greater in the area by 2040. The shaking from such an earthquake would spread again into the northern...

scale used in Japan to categorize the intensity of local ground shaking caused by earthquakes. The JMA intensity scale differs from magnitude measurements...

"Pocketsize - PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale PEIS Filipino". Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. 2015. "'Shaking Table' at Phivolcs helps...

from an earthquake. The extraordinarily high acceleration was just one part of the picture, considering that duration and frequency of shaking also play...

improving the speed and accuracy of loss estimates immediately after earthquakes (within less than an hour) so that injured people may be rescued more...

2011, at 14:46:24 JST (05:46:24 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula...

Northridge earthquake. Shake table tests on pipe systems anchored in a full-scale, seven-story building performed on the Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table...

chance of survival when an earthquake hits. Busted The Build Team built a 13 by 11 feet (4.0 m × 3.4 m) earthquake shaking table using pneumatic valve springs...

was of inadequate design. Many buildings did not hold up to the shaking of the earthquake and those that did collapse often lacked any survival space, but...

damaging earthquake ruptures in the long- and near-term. Combining this with ground motion models produces estimates of the severity of ground shaking that...

that the city of Algarrobo is in an area of VI–VII shaking, while embedded in a zone of VII–VIII shaking that includes nearby communities of Valparaíso,...

appears that earthquake shaking from induced earthquakes may be similar to that observed in natural tectonic earthquakes, or may have higher shaking at shorter...

revenue due to the earthquake, and responded by re-running Boxing Day sales on 12 February 2011. The earthquake caused strong ground shaking in the city centre...

earthquakes within stated limits, and particularly "the determination of parameters for the next strong earthquake to occur in a region". Earthquake prediction...