For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they ...

Atorod Azizinamini, professor in the department of civil engineering, shares his insight on the earthquake and the importance ...

Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing ...

People walk among the rubble of collapsed buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, 25 June 2026. Ronald Pena R / EPA Images More ...

One factor that many people may not think about is what kind of soil and rock are underneath the surface when the ground ...

This is the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao: a school building collapsed, a commercial establishment crumbled, and debris fell from several structures. The General ...

Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes -- first in 2010 and again in 2021. Each disaster left behind widespread destruction: buildings reduced to ...

Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions. By Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller has reported on why ...

This week’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble. Earthquakes of such force ...

The fault beneath Istanbul doesn’t behave the way scientists once thought. New research from USC shows that variations in underground temperature and sediment thickness segment the Main Marmara Fault ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. This is the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao: a school building collapsed, a commercial ...