Overwhelming majorities of Los Angeles County voters support strengthening building codes and imposing greater restrictions ...

Five years after Magna residents and others in the Salt Lake Valley were awakened by an early morning earthquake, the community is still being rebuilt.

Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation, which relates to edge and screw dislocations in crystal lattices, can be recast in the same form as a basic mathematical formula that governs ...

When trying to improve, refine, and seek more efficiency in disaster management measures, predicting the extent of disaster ...

The shakes have left the 'Big One' on many Greater Victorian minds – a megaquake on the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates. The last megaquake hit Vancouver Island in January ...

Most school buildings in southeast Missouri are not reinforced and are vulnerable to collapse if a major earthquake were to ...

Extreme engineering in earthquake zones and volatile climates represents the pinnacle of structural innovation, where buildings must withstand both seismic forces and extreme weather conditions. These ...

Reports for three school districts in southeast Missouri indicate most school buildings aren't earthquake-resistant. Some ...

Following an earthquake or other disaster, attention shifts from ensuring human safety to assessing the community's damage ...

Japanese scientists have discovered new significant correlations between solar activity and earthquakes, according to recent ...