SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — “We are creating our own earthquake,” Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have received Best of What's New awards from Popular Science, the world's largest science and technology ...

A 10-story tower mostly made of wood withstood a simulated 7.7 earthquake on UC San Diego’s outdoor shake table Tuesday, underscoring a belief by some engineers that such structures could safely be ...

It’s a humbling sound: middle-schoolers hearing a structure crash into pieces after they spent the past five weeks building it. For Jefferson Middle School student Emma Davis, it’s also a familiar ...

Building codes will be changing soon, now that a study at UC San Diego found a common steel building column won’t withstand the stress of a strong earthquake. KPBS Science and technology reporter ...

The San Ysidro School District held their first board meeting after confirming Sunset Preschool teacher’s aide, Jaime Godinez, was arrested for allegedly touching a child inappropriately.

UC San Diego conducts experimental fire at 'Shake Table' Good Morning San Diego This is the first of two controlled internal fire tests that will take place in a 10-story building on the UC San Diego ...

The NEES @ UCSD shake table has been used to test a wide variety of structures. Clockwise from center of top row: a five-story building equipped with non-structural components (two pictures), a ...

If a 6.9 magnitude quake happened along the Rose Canyon Fault, which mirrors the path the I-5 freeway takes from La Jolla to Downtown, it could cause an estimated $38 billion of damage with up to 800 ...

A 10-story tower mostly made of wood withstood a simulated 7.7 earthquake on UC San Diego’s outdoor shake table Tuesday, underscoring a belief by some engineers that such structures could safely be ...