Duke faculty and students are working with colleagues in Nepal to give the country more warning before deadly earthquakes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the ...

Vancouver’s Hive building is the latest proof that mass timber construction is here to stay. As visitors head into downtown ...

A deadly earthquake that reduced buildings to rubble in West Java, Indonesia has once again exposed the dangers of living in poorly built homes in one of the most seismically active zones on the ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — On March 28, a magnitude (M) 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended over 400 kilometers from north to south. Said to be ...

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 ...

Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was. The collapsed Guclu Bahce complex in Antakya, Turkey, ...

The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast - Copyright AFP Toshifumi KITAMURA The magnitude-7. ...

After a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake near Russia triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific, Japan’s buildings once again stood firm. Here’s why Japanese construction rarely crumbles—thanks to ...