earthquake engineering

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English

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UN headquarters in Haiti after the Richter scale M7 plus earthquake of January 12, 2010.

Noun

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earthquake engineering (uncountable)

  1. The study of the behavior of buildings and structures subject to seismic loading

Further reading

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