A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, became a widespread catastrophe due to the collapse of vulnerable buildings, which directly led to the majority of deaths and ...
LOS ANGELES — In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck central Taiwan Wednesday, felt throughout the island, though building damage is expected to be limited to the rural region of Nantou. Catastrophe modelling firm AIR ...
Softac CEO Ian Bowman: QuakeTrip could reduce fires triggered by an earthquake In 1995, when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Kobe, Japan, much of the ensuing damage and death resulted not from ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s northwestern province of Balikesir on Sunday, killing at least one person and causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse, officials said ...
As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador ...
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck off the coast of the central Philippines on Tuesday evening (September 30, 2025). The intense tremors caused damage to buildings and roads and also ...
The quake, felt in the northwest of Athens, struck at 2.13pm local time with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, according to the Athens Institute of Geodynamics. The U.S. Geological Survey later reported ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A strong earthquake shook western Turkey on Monday, causing at least three buildings that were damaged in a previous tremor to collapse, officials said. There were no immediate ...
A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island just after midnight Friday, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least 15 people. More than 600 people were ...
MEXICO CITY – As many as 360 buildings and homes are in danger of collapse or with major damage in Mexico City nearly a week after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake completely collapsed 38 structures. The ...
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