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

No one has control over natural disasters like earthquakes and flood. The loss caused due to such disasters can be ...

Putting off an earthquake retrofit of your house? California is reopening applications for grants of up to $3,000 to fund seismic strengthening of older homes that can slide off their foundations ...

Earthquakes have become a common occurrence in today's time. Earthquakes keep happening every day in many states of North ...

Click the right arrow to view images of the house that underwent an earthquake test: Scientists hope to learn how to build better houses. July 11, 2000 Web posted at: 5:46 p.m. EDT (2146 GMT) ...

It's been so long since Los Angeles suffered a major earthquake -- the magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake was 20 years ago in January -- that it's been easy to put disaster preparedness on a back burner.

The “Earthquake House” by architect David Ming-Li Lowe in Los Angeles, one of the only residential homes built on shock-absorbing dampers to protect against earthquakes, is back on the market ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table -- a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake.