Volunteers look for survivors near a building damaged in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on March 28, 2025, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. (Aung Shine Oo / Associated Press) Weak building codes and years of ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and dozens ...

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- Dr. Lucy Jones, the world famous and now retired Caltech seismologist, took her wide-ranging knowledge of earthquakes to California's ...

A technical report on the failure of the Canterbury Television building during an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in February 2011 illustrates how important seismic codes are in saving lives.

"It was my first awareness of the severity of Mother Nature," Youssef recalls. The structural failure of the hospital, where two of the 14 fatalities in the Sylmar quake occurred despite the ...

Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes. Decades of learning from disasters, tightening ...

After the 2018 magnitude 7.1 earthquake, I reviewed the 1964 magnitude 9.2 quake. One striking photo was the intact house that slid down the Turnagain bluff. Bringing in memories of the 2002 7.9 quake ...

The new earthquake early warning system is being rolled out up and down the West Coast. It would provide a heads up, ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes, that an earthquake had started and ...

Weak building codes and years of government unrest appear to have contributed to the devastation from the magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake, a leading seismic safety expert in the region said. The ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday has killed more than 1,600 people and injured more than 3,400 and was felt as far as Thailand, Laos and southern China. The ...