A Turkish general contractor, Hasan Alpargün, has been sentenced to 865 years in prison for his role in the collapse of a ...

The owner and tenants of an East Village apartment building say errors in their next-door neighbor’s construction plans could ...

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Amid Southern California's most seismically active year in decades, some cities have yet to require retrofits of many ...

"However, the experience of many building owners under current earthquake building settings has been the worst of both worlds ...

In a bid to improve disaster mitigation in the country, a seismic hazard atlas was developed by the Philippine Institute of ...

Earthquakes can be incredibly destructive. They take uncountable lives, damage economies, and ruin families. One of the most ...

Dr. Erica Seville, a leading authority in risk management and engineering, has been appointed as the independent chair of the ...

The epicenter was about 4.6 miles north of Point Dume, in the mountains above Malibu’s city limits. It’s the seventh ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...