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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Through advanced engineering, the building is designed to withstand seismic activity while supporting Metro Manila’s booming urban skyline. As conversations about earthquake preparedness grow louder, ...
Research into how buildings sway during earthquakes is recommending they be built more stiffly. Some Wellington buildings that swayed a lot suffered extensive interior damage in the 2016 Kaikōura ...
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 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Houaphan Province in Laos, approximately 5 km from the Vietnamese border, at 11:26 p.m. on ...
Seven years after an earthquake virtually erased Castelluccio di Norcia from the central Italian map, almost nothing has been rebuilt in the town, which sits above the vast, high-altitude meadow in ...
AS conversations about earthquake preparedness grow louder, attention is turning to how local buildings can better respond to ...
At least 20 people were killed and over 640 injured after a strong earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Samangan province, ...