Every earth quake causes serious damage to human society, especially to non-engineered structures like adobe, nonreinforced masonry of stone, brick or concrete block beca [...]

It is observed in the past that high rate of casualty in earthquakes is due to prevailing practice of unsafe construction. Despite the efforts of reducing risks, loss of [...]

Every large scale earthquake causes tragic damages to human societies especially human casualties. Sichuan Earthquake 2008 reminded us the fact again. Main cause of the h [...]

Like other infrastructure, school buildings are subject to damage and collapse in the event of earthquakes. The recent earthquakes have exposed vulnerability of school bu [...]

There are several effective tools to reduce or prevent life and property losses during an earthquake. The experiences from past earthquakes show that effective implementa [...]