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 ...

During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994 ... San Francisco's Marina District crumbled. Structural fixes can involve installing steel frames on the ground floor, as well ...

Seven structures destroyed and nine others damaged ... He said in his experience.the Northridge earthquake, the L.A. Riot and the Palisades Fire are the three biggest messes he’s had to deal ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

UCSD’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is testing a 10-story cold steel-form structure on the world’s largest shake ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

That’s a much larger area than the part of the San Fernando Valley that saw “violent” shaking during the 1994 Northridge earthquake ... is possibly defective steel frame buildings, which ...

An earthquake in central Myanmar just unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say. Previously, only a staircase was visible. Now, after the ...

In 1994, an earthquake hit Northridge. There was a lot of damage and the CSUN was also hit hard. This documentary shows what happened then through interviews with Professor Nate Thomas and ...