And after the quake, we started bringing in earthquake engineers to figure out why the buildings collapsed, to examine what was safe and what wasn't.

(d) To study seismic processes in the depths of the Sun by observing global oscillations.

In fact, when it did actually fill with water a year and a half ago, they were able to measure a wobble within the earth as it was spinning.

During the Haiti earthquake, a number of engineers and product managers spontaneously came together and stayed overnight to build a tool to allow earthquake victims to find their loved ones.

In September, UNU organized a workshop entitled Urban earthquake risk management preparing for the Big One in Tokyo, with participation by leading experts in earthquake engineering and disaster management, officials from city governments in the capital region and utility company representatives.

Seminars on such topics as quot engineering seismology quot and quot estimating characteristics of earthquake ground motions and evaluating liquefaction potential quot , a short training course on SAR data interpretation and field trips to selected study areas were also included.

Haiti was not a natural disaster, says TED Fellow Peter Haas It was a disaster of engineering. As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn modern building and engineering practices, to assemble a strong country brick by brick.

Given the fact that Addis Ababa is settled on a seismic fault, during the course of the design exercise, the structural engineers contracted for the project required further soil testing in specific areas of the site to confirm the topographical data already documented.

Do earthquakes

Surely when We pound the earth to powder grounded, pounded to dust,

Surely when We pound the earth to powder grounded, pounded to dust,

Most certainly when the earth is smashed and blown to bits.

Most certainly when the earth is smashed and blown to bits.

No indeed! When the earth is ground to powder,

No indeed! When the earth is ground to powder,

By no means! when the earth shall be ground with grinding, grinding,

By no means! when the earth shall be ground with grinding, grinding,

Nay! When the earth is ground to powder,

Nay! When the earth is ground to powder,

No when the earth is leveled, pounded, and crushed.

No when the earth is leveled, pounded, and crushed.

But no when the earth is ground to powder,

But no when the earth is ground to powder,

Nay, but when the earth is ground to atoms, grinding, grinding,

Nay, but when the earth is ground to atoms, grinding, grinding,

No indeed! When the earth is levelled to a plain,

No indeed! When the earth is levelled to a plain,

No! But when the earth quakes and is pounded,

No! But when the earth quakes and is pounded,

No! When the earth has been leveled pounded and crushed

No! When the earth has been leveled pounded and crushed

When the earth is crushed into small pieces

When the earth is crushed into small pieces

Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,

Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,

No indeed! When the earth is crushed and ground to dust,

No indeed! When the earth is crushed and ground to dust,

Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,

Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,

(ii) Seismometers.

The water mains burst due to the earthquake.

The epicenter of the earthquake was in the province of Coleman, with a focal depth of about 10 kilometers. The earthquake also damaged more than 30 houses.

So, for example, a couple of days after the disaster in Haiti, we had an earthquake map that showed before and after pictures from the sky.

I'm afraid of earthquakes.

(d) Seismic science