Located on the most active earthquake belt in the world, the island nation of Japan is constantly shaking, or bracing itself for the next big quake. Six years ago a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the ...

The Canadian Parliament’s oldest building, the East Block, is vulnerable to the frequent earthquakes of the Ottawa area and needs at least $66 million in upgrades to make it more tremor-resistant, ...

Montreal is among the most vulnerable cities in Canada to earthquakes — second behind only Vancouver — but can its buildings withstand a major tremor? A risk modeling firm, AIR Worldwide, estimated ...

CALGARY – A Calgary-based company is hosting today several Chilean government officials as it seeks to help re-build 220,000 homes destroyed in that country’s earthquake and tsunami in February 2010.