PORTLAND, Ore. — In Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the northwest side of the Burnside Bridge, engineers began drilling a 125-foot test shaft as part of crucial seismic testing for Portland's earthquake ...

One of the most predominant factors impacting today's construction industry is the demand to construct buildings that can resist seismic forces and accommodate for the building movements. Architects ...

The Trump administration is getting a massive and mostly icy response to plans for an Arctic seismic testing permit that could disturb polar bears. The Trump administration is getting a massive and ...

Last month, a seismic shake test was conducted on a 10-story wooden structure—the world’s tallest building to be tested on a shake table earthquake simulator. The goal? To validate the strength of ...

Congressional Republicans are proposing a bill that environmental groups say could open the protected waters off America's Southeast coast to seismic surveying for oil and gas — a practice that could ...

Offshore oil and gas exploration uses deafening seismic surveys that generate the loudest human sounds in the ocean (short of those made by explosives). Seismic testing involves blasting the seafloor ...

Woodside Energy last week announced it would start seismic testing for its Scarborough gas project off Australia’s west coast, before reversing the decision in the face of a legal challenge from ...