Officials credited strong building codes for the collapse of very few structures in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook Southcentral Alaska on Nov. 30. But the less obvious structural damage, ...

According to IC-SHM, the challenge, organized by the Structures and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Houston, tackles “the challenge [of structural health monitoring] by fostering and ...

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 ...

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just over a month later on February 27, an even more powerful earthquake — with a magnitude of 8.8 — hit Chile near ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCT) A team of structural engineers, architects, and urban search and rescue team members from North Carolina traveled to Puerto Rico on Wednesday to begin work assessing damaged homes ...

The global earthquake structural engineering firm Miyamoto International has opened an office in Reno to bring its seismic expertise to a region it views as a great growth market where seismic hazard ...

The 7.0 earthquake that hit Southcentral Alaska on Friday morning sank Michael and Nikki Rose’s Sand Lake home by several inches and sliced open their driveway. A few days later, on Monday morning, ...

Over the past ten years, seismic activity on the west coast has caused over $17 billion in property damage. The Northridge earthquake in 1994 was a wake up call for many business owners and developers ...

The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations of real earthquakes, ...

Reporting from San Francisco — When the region’s most powerful earthquake in years struck Northern California on an early Sunday morning in 2014, it jolted two homes standing side by side on a ...