The ASCE's newly formed Subcommittee on Tsunami Loads and Effects are crafting new building standards for "tsunami loads and effects." ... Tsunami-Proof Buildings Targeted in New Standards Initiative.

Because the buildings are literally grown from the ocean environment, the hope is that they’d be more resistant to the damage caused by a tsunami. Not too long ago, Westerners might have been ...

Buildings can be created to withstand the most powerful earthquakes, but designers remain largely powerless in thwarting the destructive forces of a tsunami, such as the one that slammed Japan's ...

There's a tiny community of researchers in the U.S. and around the world who are trying to make buildings tsunami-resistant, he says, but those the scientists have come up with some solid ideas.

The tsunami-resistant buildings will have “breakaway” walls on lower floors that actually strengthen the structure when removed by strong waves.

Crescent City was not the only West Coast port slammed by the tsunami, which was generated by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan. The waves ripped apart docks and sank boats in Santa Cruz, Calif ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. —- Inside the cold and quiet and sterility ofthe O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, it’s hard to appreciatethe implications of the faux tsunami bearing down on a co… ...

If Cannon Beach gets its tsunami-resistant building before a large disaster hits the community, “City Hall will basically be intact and we can organize relief efforts and then also start doing ...

The building elevation is based on tsunami inundation maps suggesting that 90 percent of all possible tsunamis would generate water depths of 4.5 meters—at the city hall site.

WESTPORT — Ground has been broken for a new school building on the Washington coast at Westport. Officials say the structure is designed to be tsunami-proof. KOMO-TV reported that the planned ...

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