5 of Santa Clara’s 10 reservoirs need seismic repairs and the anticipated cost is around $150M. These dams are kept at less than capacity, and the total maximim water supply for all 10 reservoirs is only about 67% of capacity. URS is the consultant for Santa Clara County’s water district. [Source: San Jose Mercury News. Image: Mercury News]
With the events in Japan on everyone’s mind, it’s of course to be expected that seismic safety at nuclear power plants in the U.S. becomes a hot topic. This article discusses how the Nuclear Regulatory […]
A recent study concluded that three of four recently constructed segments of a new port facility in Anchorage, Alaska were not constructed correctly and even if they were, are vulnerable to liquefaction related damage during […]
The 1964 Alaska Earthquake was 9.2 in magnitude and caused dramatic destruction and dramatic examples of surface rupture, subsidence, and liquefaction. New paleoseismic evidence points to a previously unknown earthquake that happened on the same […]
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