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

This topsy-turvy guide to Southern California earthquakes details the history of earthquakes in the Coachella Valley and other facts to know.

Today is 270 years since the destruction of Lisbon. The earthquake of All Saints day 1755 in Lisbon changed a nation and is still remembered across the continent. Hence a republication of our 2016 ...

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

Danish-American postdoctoral researcher Louisa Barama, with the help of fellow staff members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Geophysical Monitoring Programs, is determining how ...

Inspired by one of its worst disasters, the 1985 earthquake, Mexico's Alerta Sísmica has become a lifesaver by providing ...

Recent advances in earthquake engineering have increasingly focused on developing resilient and intelligent technologies to ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

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

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

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 collapsed walls of houses and buildings late Tuesday in a central Philippine province, killing at least 31 people, injuring many ...

State agencies must upgrade their buildings to meet stronger safety standards by 2060 under a Sept. 8 executive order signed by Gov. Tina Kotek. The higher standards are in preparation for the “100% ...