"The recent earthquakes in Manchester and Italy have highlighted our need to better understand the movement of the Earth's crust in England, " said Dr Matt King of Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.

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"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.

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She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a double major in neuroscience and media studies, and a double minor in civil engineering and management science from MIT Sloan School of Management.

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After graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a civil engineering degree, and then from Harvard Business School, Blair began his real estate career in 1985 with flamboyant Dallas developer Trammell Crow.

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Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.

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