A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of California San Diego to see how well it can withstand earthquakes. The UC San ...

If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On a clear, warm September day, up on the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, which is the highest you can go in an elevator from the ground floor of the building, the 360 degree ...

Modern engineering practices explicitly design concrete to be more resilient to earthquakes, but older buildings predate such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order on Monday aiming to help the state prepare for ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — In the Lowcountry we see afternoon storms, hurricanes, and even earthquakes. It’s been more than a hundred years since Summerville has seen a devastating earthquake, but ...

Seattle’s unreinforced brick buildings are a disaster waiting to happen — and the cash to fix them isn’t there. It's been almost 25 years since the Nisqually earthquake. That's the last significant ...

Most new state-owned buildings will need to be earthquake-proof, and by 2060, all buildings owned or leased by the state for executive branch agencies will need to make earthquake-safety upgrades or ...

On February 28, 2001 a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Western Washington for almost a full minute. The quake hit at 10:54 a.m. It caused upwards of $4 billion in damage, and about 400 people ...

The Uttarakhand government is overhauling its building bylaws to align with new earthquake safety standards (ISO 1893-2025) ...