Sentence examples for improving earthquake from inspiring English sources

Stanley and co raise the idea of improving earthquake prediction early in their paper but they studiously avoid discussing the impact their approach may have on earthquake forecasts.

They range from improving earthquake forecasting and developing early-warning systems to understanding how to increase the resistance of existing buildings to damage and how to preserve electricity and water infrastructure.

Its "Guidelines: Improving Earthquake Resistance of Housing" is a how-to book on better ways to mix mortar and inject epoxy and reinforce clay walls with cane poles.

The officials hope the map, which had not been updated since 1994, will improve earthquake preparedness and construction decisions.

Miaki Ishii uses computer models to improve earthquake prediction and to study the interior structure of the earth.

There has also a big effort on the part of local governments to improve earthquake preparedness, said Dr. Kirby, including improved zoning, seismic hazard maps and better building codes.

Preparing Boston for the "big one" MIT-SUTD postdoctoral fellow Ornella Iuorio explores structural retrofits to improve earthquake preparedness in Boston's Back Bay.

Dr. Hausler's approach, carried out in Indonesia after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami and in China after the 2008 Sichuan quake, has been to involve homeowners in the design and building process, modifying traditional designs to improve earthquake resistance.

The aim of this study is the design and trial of a novel sparse network beamforming (NB) technique to improve earthquake location.

In an article in Modern Steel Construction in 2014, architect Terri Meyer Boake called on her colleagues to embrace the opportunity to modify structural steel to help improve earthquake resilience – both in new-builds and when retrofitting existing buildings.

This scrap-and-build approach is a quirk of the Japanese housing market that can be explained variously by low-quality construction to quickly meet demand after the second world war, repeated building code revisions to improve earthquake resilience and a cycle of poor maintenance due to the lack of any incentive to make homes marketable for resale.