SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers at UC San Diego on Monday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake. The ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

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 ...

Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related deaths and financial losses in the past decades. According to a recent ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order on Monday aiming to help the state prepare for earthquakes. Executive Order 25-22 directs Oregon’s Department of ...

"Three, two, one!” 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 ...

The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake caused major damage to buildings along State Street. Credit: Gledhill Library / Santa Barbara Historical Museum photo After the 1925 earthquake devastated Santa ...

As visitors head into downtown Vancouver through the city’s False Creek Flats neighborhood, the first thing they’ll see is the Hive: a 10-story office building built out of wood and shaped like a ...