Seeing the pictures of damage from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti makes me think once again about what California will be like after our next big urban earthquake. Because we have, and ...

A collapsed building in Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey, early on Feb. 6, hours after the 7.8 earthquake that killed tens of thousands in the region.

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

Responding to the after-effects of a natural disaster can be challenging to any department. ... Post-Earthquake Building Collapse Tactics. May 1, 2012. FirefighterNation Staff.

New Design Keeps Buildings Standing And Habitable After Major Earthquakes. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 09 / 090902112759.htm ...

It's been two days since a powerful earthquake violently shook central Mexico killing at least 245 people. But buildings keep falling even as rescue efforts turn more to recovery and reconstruction.

Moment pagoda and building collapse in Myanmar after earthquake. The hand held footage shows a pagoda toppling over and crumbling to rubble while another clip shows a large state-of-the-art ...

Across southern Turkey, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a second major tremor hours later killed more than 50,000 people and devastated hundreds of thousands of buildings.

One of the compound’s two buildings collapsed in the early hours of Feb. 6, concrete and steel tumbling to the ground in a cloud of dust when a strong aftershock hit the region hours after a 7.8 ...

Thel building, which is shared by the magnet middle school J.H.S. 218 James P. Sinnott and the School for Classics High School, is safe to use, according to an inspection by Department of ...

Images emerging from Japan show flattened buildings and collapsed roads after a powerful earthquake hit the nation's western coast Monday afternoon and temporarily triggered a tsunami warning. The ...