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Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of ...

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still ...

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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 ...

Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the state Capitol nears the end of a years-long, $598 million seismic ...