More than two decades after a major earthquake destroyed buildings across Puget Sound, many remain vulnerable to collapse.

Materials scientists have uncovered a new way to predict material degradation and failure by studying muscovite mica and ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics ...

Thousands of Taylor Swift fans jumping and dancing in sync have caused seismic activity in other cities. The same could happen in Indianapolis.

The congregation of Sister Clare Crockett, a young nun who died in 2016 during an earthquake in Ecuador, announced the ...

A new city report that examined what a 7.2-magnitude earthquake could do to Vancouver concluded that up to 1,350 people would ...

The Isias hotel in the southeastern Turkish city of Adiyaman, which collapsed during earthquakes in February last year killing 24 Cypriot children, 11 Cypriot adults, and 37 others, “would not have ...

During exposure, an instrument known as a nanoindenter poked ... "By showing that we can observe the same results by using the statistical models already in place for earthquakes, researchers will be ...

Portugal is gearing up for the 12th edition of ‘A Terra Treme’, the country’s annual nationwide earthquake awareness exercise ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

THE congregation of Sister Clare Crockett, a young nun who died in 2016 during an earthquake in Ecuador, announced the ...