Orange Street Alley showcases the charm and historic character of the old brick buildings lining downtown streets in Redlands, Calif. Even though the architecture is part of the city’s heritage ...

Nearly 150 historic buildings across Salt Lake County were damaged by the earthquake. Of those, just one was severe enough to be torn down, said Chris Merritt, Utah historic preservation officer.

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Last week’s earthquake rattled bricks and facades off of historic buildings from Magna’s Main Street to Salt Lake City’s university neighborhood, according to a list compiled by Utah ...

More than 1,000 old concrete buildings in Los Angeles and hundreds more throughout the county may be at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake, according to a Times analysis.

More than 600 hundred brick buildings in the Inland Empire are unretrofitted and at risk of collapse during a major earthquake, despite decades of warning, a Times analysis has found ...

An earthquake risk assessment for Everett counted about 100 dangerous brick buildings. In Tacoma, a city official said a survey was conducted in the late 1990s, but he couldn’t access the data.

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Alaska’s Old Harbor region, triggering panic among residents ...

“The earthquake is kind of an in-the-back-of-your-mind-type thing for now; we’re trying to take care of those upfront issues that we can right now.” Slow and steady seismic safety. Sikeston School ...

The impact of the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Italy's Emilia-Romagna region on Sunday appears to have been made worse by the fact that significant seismic activity is rare there. Seven ...

Concrete has become the high-rise building material of choice because it's relatively cheap, easy to work with, long-lasting, and highly resistant to fire or explosions, unlike steel. It does have ...

Old, unreinforced brick buildings aren’t the only ones jeopardized by earthquakes. More than a quarter of Seattle’s housing stock was built before the building code adopted seismic standards ...