The FINANCIAL — Devastating earthquakes are a global phenomenon, as anyone in Nepal, Japan, or Indonesia can tell you. The consequences can be crushing: human lives are lost and confusion in everyday ...

Students in Integrated Science at FHS put their engineering skills to the test by designing and building earthquake-proof ...

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 ...

Researchers have drawn inspiration from butterfly wings to create a lightweight lattice structure that ...

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 ...

Can a futuristic "green city" survive one of the most dangerous earthquake zones on Earth? Welcome to Asman, Kyrgyzstan’s $20 billion mega-project near the UNESCO-protected Lake Issyk-Kul. Designed to ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — As any good structural engineer knows, materials matter. Saturday at the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, it was masking tape and hot glue. Ten teams from five elementary ...

Although the earthquake that shook New York City and the surrounding region on Friday didn’t cause systemic damage, it left many residents wondering how the city’s buildings would fare under stronger ...

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 ...

Seismologists, structural engineers, and developers aren’t always on the same page when it comes to quake-resistant building ...