This year marks a decade since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people and causing widespread ...

Analysis of a high-rise building with double-layer isolation demonstrates superior seismic response, minimizing risks of ...

On August 31, 1886, a huge earthquake delivered the final blow to Middleton Place. This 7.3-magnitude quake, the strongest ...

UCSD’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is testing a 10-story cold steel-form structure on the world’s largest shake ...

City leaders formed the San Francisco Relief Committee, which, aided by the U.S. Army, organized refugee camps and built ...

April 10 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck near the south coast of Indonesia's West Papua on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth ...

These standards emphasise design, materials, and construction practices ... What is missing is implementation — turning paper plans into reinforced columns, seismic bands, and flexible foundations.

The US experiences violent earthquakes, but the damage and death toll is much lower than in many countries because of the ...

According to The New York Times, Sky Villa, a 12-storey condominium complex built in 2017, was one of the most severely impacted sites, despite being marketed for its "earthquake-resistant foundation.

Athitaya Yuenyao, 22, with her team of electricians on the day of the earthquake.Credit ... and graders a couple of hundred metres away. A foundation has set up a tent with 37 beds, but there ...

More broadly, FEMA, the USGS, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation ... of earthquake risks into safer standards, better building design and ...