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Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out.   |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Julian Smith |
Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay The Marmaray tunnel project is ambitious enough to worry even the most experienced engineers, but its location could give a seismologist night sweats. All this work is taking place just 12 miles from the North Anatolian Fault, Eurasia's version of the San Andreas. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Turkey Building the World's Deepest Immersed Tube Tunnel Soon, the Turks will connect Europe and Asia under the Bosporus via a 8.25-mile-long Marmaray Tunnel, which will provide a rail link for a rapid transit system. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2010
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Tunnels: Gallery The tourist and traveler can learn about tunnels all over the world and their unique features and background. |
Wired
January 2005
David Goldenberg |
Spanning the Globe Over the next century, engineers hope to connect five continents with bridges (sorry, Australia and Antarctica). Plans are under way to link Alaska and Russia, Spain and Morocco, India and Sri Lanka. |
Wired
April 2003
Fred Hapgood |
Sub-Urban Renewal Thanks to new tunneling technologies, real estate trends are down. Way down. |
Popular Mechanics
November 3, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Bridges: Gallery Unique innovations are found all over the world in local bridge designs. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2008 |
Engineers to Quake-Proof Cal Stadium on Free-Floating Blocks Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. |
Popular Mechanics
September 26, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Post-Minneapolis, Engineers Go Gonzo to Bombproof U.S. Bridges Paintball, Nanotechnology and Molecular Band-Aids may sound like a science fair, but these are the gizmos that could prevent terrorists from knocking out your city. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Geotimes
April 2006 |
This Month in History... April 18, 1906: The Great Earthquake Destroys San Francisco Those few individuals who were involved in the relatively new science of seismology quickly journeyed to San Francisco that long ago April to see for themselves the effects of the disaster, to record their observations in scientific terms, and to hypothesize on its causes. |
Popular Mechanics
May 13, 2008
Erik Sofge |
3 Frontiers in Earthquake Tech to Aid China--and Help the U.S. Can a network of GPS sensors store enough data online to scout the Bay Area's looming quake? And could the rig work in the Chinese countryside? |
Popular Mechanics
January 16, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
New Minn. Bridge Plans Arise as Bad Plates Fingered in Collapse New construction on St. Anthony Falls Bridge will make it one of the safest in the country. |
Popular Mechanics
September 30, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Engineering Lessons From the New, Reopened Minnesota Bridge The St. Anthony Falls Bridge reopened months ahead of schedule. Read why the new bridge should set an example for urban planners everywhere. |
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2008
Erik Sofge |
L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Josh Chamot |
Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues. |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Online and underground Thanks to the Web, the sport of infiltration -- creeping through abandoned buildings and unused subway tunnels -- is thriving as never before... |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
Prachi Patel |
Despite Stimulus Money, Most U.S. Bridges Might Stay Dumb Sensors are starting to prove themselves in the biggest, most complex bridges, but the technology isn't ready for the hundreds of thousands of smaller ones |
Geotimes
January 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold. |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
New Earthquake-Proof Alloy Allows Bridges to Bend but Not Break (With Video!) In a recent test simulating the intensity of a magnitude 8 quake, a 100-ft-long model bridge built with the new earthquake-proof material suffered a little surface damage but remained structurally intact. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2, 2007
Stephen Flynn |
Minn. Bridge Collapse Reveals Brittle America: Expert Op-Ed Yesterday's tragedy makes it clear that the U.S. has been squandering its infrastructure legacy by turning a reckless blind eye to critical upgrades. |
Popular Mechanics
October 5, 2009
Amber Angelle |
Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System Right now, the best that seismologists can do to "predict" earthquakes is to send out a warning immediately after activity is detected. |
Job Journal
March 28, 2004
Rich Heintz |
Demand for Engineers Building Demand remains firm for many engineering specialties. Includes a list of websites that are useful to job seekers. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Megan Sever |
100 Years After San Francisco Quake Whether you're tracing historical locations of the 1906 earthquake or just traveling through San Francisco and the Bay Area, be aware of your surroundings -- researchers say it's not a question of "if" the San Andreas will shake San Francisco again, it's a matter of "when." |
Geotimes
March 2004
Mark Zoback |
Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again |
