Some of California’s biggest earthquakes have occurred on lesser-known fault areas, including both the Ridgecrest quake and ...

Learn how seismic-resilient bridge design uses advanced materials, curved geometry modeling, shape memory alloys, and performance-based methods to reduce earthquake damage and downtime.

Taholah School District and the Quinault Indian Nation are constructing a new kindergarten through 12th grade, earthquake-proof, school ...

A company is building homes in the Inland Empire that can withstand some of the most massive earthquakes and wildfires.

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer ...

To make disaster housing more resilient in Myanmar, Blue Temple and Housing Now turned to a cheap local material.

For years, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has defied predictions of collapse. Sanctions, diplomatic isolation and internal unrest have failed to unseat him. But the latest escalation by the Trump ...

From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich claim they have created a map of all buildings ...

With natural disasters striking communities across the U.S. at an accelerating pace, the question of how to build homes that can endure them has never been more critical. New research spanning ...