India's 2025 earthquake code mandates strict liquefaction checks to prevent buildings from sinking in Delhi's soft soil.

Columbia Memorial's current hospital would likely collapse and sink into the ground or be swallowed by a landslide after a major earthquake or a tsunami.

While smart and energy-efficient buildings tend to grab headlines, in countries like Japan where earthquakes are a regular event, these important factors are often downgraded to ‘nice-to-haves’ behind ...

With natural disasters striking communities across the U.S. at an accelerating pace, the question of how to build homes that ...

Roman buildings were engineered with hot mixed, self-healing concrete of quicklime and volcanic ash that strengthens in seawater.

Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

Several metro rail stations in Dhaka have reportedly developed cracks following yesterda's earthquake. During visits to multiple locations today (22 November), cracks were found on the floor of ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by ...

A drying climate in East Africa reduced the amount of water in Kenya’s Lake Turkana over thousands of years, which unleashed earthquakes and volcanoes from underneath it. This hazard of climate change ...