Reports for three school districts in southeast Missouri indicate most school buildings aren't earthquake-resistant. Some ...

I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

The Sikkim slope failure-induced glacial lake outburst ... technique that uses flexible bearings to reduce damage to buildings during earthquakes - is one of the most commonly used methods in ...

The earthquakes exposed the decades’ long failure of municipalities, and other public authorities to ensure builders’ compliance with safe building standards. Yet two years on, there is little ...

Phillip Kraft, who lives in the building, said he was asleep when the explosion woke him up. “It was like an earthquake,” he said. “It was bone-shattering. It jarred everybody.” ...

A study conducted by the Bucharest Community Foundation, through the Bucurestiul Pregatit/Bucharest Ready program, shows that ...