As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes.

There's an 85% chance that a damaging earthquake could hit Seattle in the next 50 years. Old brick buildings are most at risk, but retrofitting them could mean a loss of affordable housing.

CHICAGO -- The aftershocks that rippled around Chicago and other parts of the Midwest on Friday were not only seismic but stupefying: That shaking and swaying in the predawn hours Friday morning, ...

İSTANBUL, Türkiye — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas on Wednesday, Turkey’s disaster and emergency management agency said. There were no immediate ...