Prominent Greek seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos cautioned that the current earthquake sequence – displayed on live ...

Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coastal county of Hualien, killing at least 13 people, injuring more than 1,000 others, collapsing a hotel and forcing the ...

Washington Park is a 134-year-old historic building in Downtown Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. The building has an existing basement with an areaway and three existing floors. Originally ...

but damage would still be entirely predictable. “Wood burns and steel melts and if you’re lucky enough to have a concrete home with a tile roof, even that type of structure will last only so ...

Monday morning's magnitude-4.2 quake was the strongest to occur near western Montana since 2020, and the second strongest ...

For decades, Los Angeles has had some of the strongest building codes for earthquakes and localized fires, but large-scale fire events are new to the region and appear to be a trend. Fortunately, ...

A third of American homes, or about 48 million properties, are at risk of wildfires. Here's how to protect yours.

Like California, most structures in less urban areas are of wood construction ... prevent roof damage in typhoons but makes them top-heavy and more susceptible to collapse in earthquakes.

By Daniel KONTIE Will the affordable housing dream ever going to materialize in Ghana where several attempts to build ...

But urban architects, clients, and building-code bureaucrats ... They hold up well in earthquake testing, too. Prodded by the intuition that architects can do more with wood than they’ve had ...

According to California building company Pacific Green Homes, wood's flexibility makes it "one of the most earthquake-resistant ... said despite some smoke damage, the home was still "totally ...