Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, but this new invention has the potential to mitigate some of that damage ...

Researchers at the University of Sharjah have developed a new earthquake damper that works without electricity. Designed by ...

The future of earthquake-proofing might just be a simple cylinder filled with steel balls. In December 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent for an energy-dissipation device that ...

The imperative for such innovation in that field is massive. For instance, despite lasting only 20 seconds, the 1995 earthquake that struck Kobe, Japan destroyed 100,000 buildings, and the 2011 ...

The patent document describes the invention as unique since it merely relies on containers filled with sand or other granular material to protect a building’s structure from damage or failure during ...