The powerful earthquake that rocked southern Mexico on Tuesday is now blamed for at least six deaths, including a worker at the country's largest oil refinery, according to officials. Mountain roads ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a preliminary 3.0 magnitude quake shook close to Seven ...

To make sure buildings and infrastructure are increasingly earthquake-safe, engineers must understand how seismic activity affects different structures. A new era in large-scale earthquake engineering ...

The FINANCIAL — Devastating earthquakes are a global phenomenon, as anyone in Nepal, Japan, or Indonesia can tell you. The consequences can be crushing: human lives are lost and confusion in everyday ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete structures of the past weren’t built to withstand the fury of an earthquake but a groundbreaking solution from engineers at Purdue University could change that. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- It lasted for less than a minute, as short as 15 seconds in some Bay Area neighborhoods, but the memories of the deadly and destructive 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake still ...

It sounds like a recipe for disaster: pans of Jell-O, marshmallows and toothpicks in the hands of third- through sixth-graders. In reality, it was a lesson in how to avoid disaster. The after-school ...

Preservationists have long fought a developer's Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.