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What can Seattle area learn from Mexico City’s quake experience?
By BENJAMIN MINNICK Journal Construction Editor, Seattle DJC November 6, 2017 Just days after the 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico City in September, Reid Middleton had two teams of engineers from three offices en route to help with the aftermath and…
Scenario for a Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake on the Seattle Fault
Click here for a PDF of the Scenario for a Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake on the Seattle Fault (external Link – EERI)
Happy Halloween
Throughout the years on Halloween, Reid Middleton has invited children of all ages to roam its cubicles in search of treats, tricks, and scares. It has become a time to connect with our coworkers and their ever growing families; a…
Unique Challenges of Waterfront Projects
Have you ever been out on a dock, a pier, or some other waterfront structure and wondered why it is built the way it is, pointing the direction it does, or why it has certain features? I’m betting the answer…
Central Mexico Earthquake Reconnaissance – Day 12
Thursday, October 5, 2017 I write our last blog in the México Earthquake Reconnaissance series while en route home, passing over the incomprehensibly expansive city once again. It has been a whirlwind of long days lleno (full) of field observations,…
Central Mexico Earthquake Reconnaissance – Day 11
Day 11 (Wednesday, October 4, 2017). Yesterday, on our way to Jojutla, we briefly stopped in the Coapa area and observed some damage before moving on. Today, we decided to return to the area to see what else we could…
Central Mexico Earthquake Reconnaissance – Day 10
From the first day Team 2 arrived in Mexico, one of the items on the itinerary was to do earthquake reconnaissance in some of the more rural Mexican towns that were closer to the earthquake epicenter than Mexico City. We…
Guest Blog: Central Mexico Earthquake Reconnaissance – Day 9
Day 9 – Monday, October 2 Today's blog is authored by Erica Fischer, PhD, PE. She is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University in the Civil and Construction Engineering Department. She has over five years of structural engineering experience in…