Ground Motion Study May Show Need to Modify Building Codes

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 09:31 in Earth & Climate

In recent decades, population growth and scarcity of undeveloped metropolitan land have changed urban land use patterns and placed an increasing number of people and infrastructure in areas susceptible to topographic effects during earthquakes.

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