Earthquake-induced damage continues to pose significant challenges to the safety, functionality, and resilience of civil ...

Locals and officials in Colombia have begun a massive search and rescue effort to find survivors of a powerful earthquake ...

Research suggests we shouldn’t be surprised that so many buildings collapsed following the magnitude 7.4 earthquake ...

How Japanese buildings are designed to survive even the most devastating earthquakes - Japan has invested in decades of ...

It depends on the height of the buildings. It's not the just the strength. You have to make sure that the building is able to sway because during the earthquake, basically the ground is shaking. It ...

DURING the thirty seconds the earth shook in General Santos City, facades broke and whole structures collapsed. However, some of the older buildings, built with deep foundations, stood the shaking but ...

People walk among the rubble of collapsed buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, 25 June 2026. Ronald Pena R / EPA Images More than 500 people have been killed in Venezuela following powerful back-to-back ...

Most homeowners think about earthquakes in abstract terms - something that happens somewhere else, or something a good insurance policy will sort out after the fact. The structural reality is far more ...