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  UNR Engineers Embark On Ambitious Seismic Study

  kunr.org

  The Department of Energy has awarded a nearly $5 million grant to the University of Nevada, Reno to study the seismic safety of nuclear facilities. …

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  Fawad Najam

  

  Seismic Design in Pakistan

  undp.org

  This publication discusses earthquake risk reduction in Pakistan and its relationship to building codes, building regulation, and structural …

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  The South Asian Earthquake’s Seismic Zone Explained

  The Wall Street Journal. - Sean McLain

  NEW DELHI—Monday’s 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan sprang from a seismic hot spot in the Hindu Kush, where one tectonic plate slips under another. The fault there, known as a subduction zone, has regularly produced quakes—more than 50 of magnitude 6 or higher in the past century, according to …

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  Fawad Najam

  

  This New App Turns Your Phone Into a Portable Seismic Station

  Gizmodo - Ria Misra

  Whoa, did you feel that earthquake? Even if you didn’t, your phone did, and a new app from seismologists aims to capture those vibrations in your …

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  Fawad Najam

  Mar 26, 2016
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  Fawad Najam

  

  A Path to Learning Basic Architecture

  about.com - Jackie Craven

  The basics are simple—architecture is about people, places, and things. A person in a wheelchair (people), in Boston, Massachusetts (places), with …