Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

Kullu’s District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) organised a six-day capacity development workshop at the Government ...

After seeing thousands of homes burn to the ground in the Los Angeles wildfires, and many homes damaged here in the Houston ...

We talked with Franck Boursier, CEO of Everlasting Homes Building Group, about how concrete homes are designed to withstand fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

Three decades later, the need for earthquake-resistant structures along major roads remains largely unmet. The land ministry reported that 4,110 buildings along major emergency transport routes ...

Engineering solutions balanced the need for strength to handle water pressures with flexibility to move with the surrounding ...

Houses hanging on the cliff - Uncontrolled building affects the aesthetics of the landscape and endangers the stability of ...

When it does, it releases energy in a burst, which causes the shaking of an earthquake. Earthquakes happen most often where tectonic plates meet. Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday night, north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, briefly triggered tsunami alerts that were later lifted. The U.S ...

After a pair of small earthquakes shook San Bernardino on Monday morning, the city was jolted by another earthquake just before 10 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was the second ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Tsunami Advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and nearby islands for part of Saturday evening after a powerful earthquake struck between Honduras and the Cayman Islands ...