Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S.

The goal is to determine whether it’s safe to build taller structures using cold-formed steel — a strong, lightweight, ...

Istanbul’s historic buildings, including the Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern, are at risk from a major earthquake on the ...

The State Comptroller reports alarming gaps in buildings' earthquake preparedness, highlighting serious risks of missile hits ...

A U.S. Geological Survey simulation of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern California said 50 brittle concrete buildings housing 7,500 people could completely or partially collapse, and five ...

Learn about what makes buildings and structures withstand earthquakes with marshmallows and spaghetti. Every Monday, Kern ...

The need for “functional recovery” rather than merely “life safety” building codes has been recognized for some time. The 6.3 magnitude 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, where ...

Damning audit shows government never acted on recommendations from 2021 to streamline process of getting buildings up to code ...

Salt corrodes buildings. Earthquakes shake them. What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by saltwater? To answer that question, the National Science Foundation awarded a UB-led ...

The devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Feb. 6 left more than 39,000 people dead and over a million homeless in Turkey alone, where tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed or ...

Each story of a building should have enough lateral strength and stiffness to transfer the load during an earthquake all the way to the ground, said one of the engineers, Mustafa Mahamid, a ...