If you see smoke from the freeway, don’t worry. The blaze on UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table aims to help make ...

UC San Diego has temporarily postponed plans to set a 10-story building in Scripps Ranch on fire Wednesday in an experiment meant reveal ways to make tall structures more fire resistant. The ...

Volcanoes across several US states have recently become active, while no immediate danger is reported, experts remain ...

Volcanoes are rumbling as scientists monitor earthquakes at Washington's Mount Rainier and Alaska's Iliamna volcano.

T ucked away in a hillside garden a short walk from the restive heart of Port-au-Prince, the Hotel Oloffson was a strange kind of refuge. Through good years and a lot of bad ones, it stayed open to ...

MLS season continued in full force this weekend, with every team getting their players back from extended international duty.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands region on Monday, the country's geophysics agency said, adding there was no tsunami potential.

In a groundbreaking experiment, engineers have tested the tallest steel-framed building ever placed on an earthquake ...

Tokyo (CNN) — School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is ...

Wildfires are now a consistent threat. Learn how to rebuild stronger, smarter, and safer to better withstand the next ...

The primary goal of the tests is to determine if height limits for cold-formed steel-framed buildings can be increased.