UFOs or nuclear testing? What triggered earthquakes in Area 51 in the US?

At least 17 earthquakes were recorded near Area 51 in the vicinity of Nevada in the US. The tremors have prompted unfounded conspiracies about secret nuclear testing. In the past, the highly-classifie ...
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How can we make buildings more resilient before—and after—earthquakes? We put one solution to the test

This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.
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Earthquake simulator to test 10-story steel-framed building

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...
Yahoo

Iran: An earthquake — or a secret underground nuclear test?

At 10:45 pm on Saturday, the University of Tehran's seismography centre announced that a 4.4-magnitude earthquake had shaken the city of Aradan in Iran's Semnan province, with tremors also felt in ...
KPBS

An earthquake shake table gives recycled steel a chance to test its metal

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...
MarketWatch

GameChange Solar Announces Successful Industry-First, Full-Scale Seismic Testing of Single-Axis Solar Trackers

Genius Tracker(TM) system completes IEEE 693 high-performance level earthquake testing at UC Berkeley's PEER Lab NORWALK, Conn., March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GameChange Solar, a leading global ...
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GameChange Solar earthquake tracker testing yields no ‘meaningful power loss’ in most trials

GameChange Solar tested its ‘SpeedClamp’ system at orientations of zero and 60 degrees. Image: GameChange Solar. US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar has completed testing of its Genius Tracker ...