The Northridge earthquake in 1994 was ... This innovative system uses rubber, steel or lead bearings, known as base isolators, to separate the building structure from the earthquake ground motions ...

Engineers are running tests to improve earthquake resilience, and their work is creating safer buildings and bridges across ...

To the editor: While there is a need to upgrade the building codes to more fire-resistant practices, the kind of tilt-up concrete buildings suggested by one letter writer is not necessarily the ...