A popular spot in America for tourists is also a hotspot for earthquakes with a number of projects underway to future-proof ...

Two years after the devastating 2023 earthquakes in Turkey that killed about 60,000 people and caused the collapse of 57,000 ...

Defendants' seats remained empty in court, housing projects remained incomplete ... He criticized delays in constructing earthquake-resistant buildings and noted that zoning regulations have caused ...

A law on promoting seismic retrofitting of buildings came into force in 1995, increasing the nationwide rate of earthquake-resistant housing ... a land readjustment project was carried out ...

Large-scale government housing projects on ... important to note that earthquake-induced ground motions in a few localities did exceed the parameters defined in the building codes, but this ...

Strong ground shaking could damage or cause buildings to collapse, especially older buildings or those that were not constructed to be earthquake-proof. Tsunamis could hit coastal regions and lead ...

The collapse of so many buildings in one of the world's most earthquake-prone areas pointed to the greed of unscrupulous developers and some officials who rubber-stamped unsafe projects on unsuitable ...