BANGKOK — Thai authorities said Monday they are investigating why a single office tower block under construction in Bangkok collapsed during Friday’s earthquake that otherwise caused limited damage in ...

The U.S. Resiliency Council (USRC) has unveiled the USRC Earthquake Building Rating System. This first-of-its-kind performance rating is based on decades of earthquake engineering research and ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers at UC San Diego on Monday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake. The ...

Six deaths have been reported following the earthquake till now. Among them, three people died when a rooftop railing ...

Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes. Decades of learning from disasters, tightening ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Taiwan is one of the most seismically active places in the world with 10 times more the amount of earthquakes than California. Just this past Tuesday, the southern part of ...

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh at 10:38am on Friday. The quake, which lasted for 26 seconds originated at ...

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, causing at least 10 deaths and significant damage to buildings, mostly ...

Dhaka and Bangladesh's other densely populated cities stand exposed to alarming seismic hazards—an uncomfortable truth ...