Officials credited strong building codes for the collapse of very few structures in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook Southcentral Alaska on Nov. 30. But the less obvious structural damage, ...

According to IC-SHM, the challenge, organized by the Structures and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Houston, tackles “the challenge [of structural health monitoring] by fostering and ...

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more earthquake-safe. Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures ...

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just over a month later on February 27, an even more powerful earthquake — with a magnitude of 8.8 — hit Chile near ...

Major structural deficiencies could turn the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles into a deathtrap in the event of an earthquake, according to a 2006 report. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) But a ...

The 7.0 earthquake that hit Southcentral Alaska on Friday morning sank Michael and Nikki Rose’s Sand Lake home by several inches and sliced open their driveway. A few days later, on Monday morning, ...

Over the past ten years, seismic activity on the west coast has caused over $17 billion in property damage. The Northridge earthquake in 1994 was a wake up call for many business owners and developers ...

Reporting from San Francisco — When the region’s most powerful earthquake in years struck Northern California on an early Sunday morning in 2014, it jolted two homes standing side by side on a ...