A team of researchers in China have carried out a new experiment to test how well a 3D printed concrete house can withstand ...

A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of California San Diego to see how well it can withstand earthquakes. The UC San ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

VALPARAISO | Later this month, a Valparaiso University engineering professor will begin analyzing soil samples taken from the site of an earthquake in Turkey as part of a study that could lead to ...

Portland State University researchers simulated an earthquake on Friday, testing the effectiveness of a potentially revolutionary soil treatment.Researchers use ...

If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

MIAMI, Okla. - In a bizarre coincidence, researchers in Ottawa County began a series of earthquake tests on Wednesday, the same day the second-strongest earthquake on record in Oklahoma shook the ...

Test earthquake, tsunami and all-clear alerts would be issued at 9:21am, 9:30am and 10am respectively on Friday, aimed at ...

Early modeling from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the number of earthquake deaths in Myanmar’s heartlands could rise above 10,000. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/Shutterstock The wave of violent ...

Hours after reporting an earthquake under the Salton Sea, the United States Geological Survey said Friday the report had been an error and no quake happened. The ...

The US Geological Survey has noted seismic activity—a magnitude 5.1 earthquake—near a known North Korean nuclear test center. The last time this happened, it was thanks to the underground detonation ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...