As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

Canterbury University has done a large scale test on the sort of steel frame and concrete multistories common in New Zealand.

Damage is seen along a road near the site of a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake in a rural area of the Khulm District ...

Volunteers could sit inside the trailer and feel the sensations that take place during a high-magnitude quake.

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and ...

Science isn’t just about textbooks and laboratories—it’s an engaging journey of discovery that can lead you to the farthest ...

Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to ...

Market research cited Marsh indicated the global parametric insurance market is estimated to reach $34.4 billion by 2033. While natural catastrophe remains dominant, parametric models are increasingly ...

Cascadia and San Andreas link raises spectre of simultaneous disasters, findings that could undermine insurance models and ...

Generational poverty has plagued the Olympic Peninsula since the spotted owl decision. The best solution is to trust local leaders to solve the problem.

When a disaster such as an earthquake, flood or wildfire strikes, cities must act fast. They have to rapidly deploy first ...