Created by civil engineering professors Ross Boulanger of UC Davis and James Michael Duncan of University of Maryland, the Geo Photo Album is full of mega-disasters coupled with precise ...

The American Society of Civil Engineers reviewed “The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It,” a new book by Michel Bruneau, SUNY ...

Mega and not-quite-mega disasters are happening all the time, so much so that any book about them is likely to seem timely. With the sudden horror recently visited on Haiti, "Mega Disasters: The ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding.