SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A structural engineer says most modern buildings are built to rigorous standards that help protect them during an earthquake and explains vulnerabilities certain structures have ...

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more earthquake-safe. Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures ...

Structural engineers at UC San Diego were waiting to see how a tall building, made from recycled steel, would react in a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake shake table was ready to go as the ...

When an earthquake hits, you have only seconds to act. And if you don’t know exactly what you should do—or you have incorrect information about earthquake safety—you could accidentally be putting ...

All structures that collapsed during the magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Cebu on Sept. 30 had already been identified as high risk in the hazard maps of Project NOAH, an expert from the University of the ...