Elias Eduardo Chayeb wept for joy on seeing that the apartment building he helped his father construct in La Guaira was still ...
For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they ...
Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing ...
Atorod Azizinamini, professor in the department of civil engineering, shares his insight on the earthquake and the importance ...
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 ...
People walk among the rubble of collapsed buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, 25 June 2026. Ronald Pena R / EPA Images More ...
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 ...