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.

In a Taiwan warehouse, researchers hit a button, and a five-storey, steel-and-concrete box begins to buck and sway.

Canterbury University has done a large scale test on the sort of steel frame and concrete multistories common in New Zealand.

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.

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Houaphan Province in Laos, approximately 5 km from the Vietnamese border, at 11:26 p.m. on ...

A massive earthquake has struck in Turkey's Balikesir region, impacting large areas across the country's west including Istanbul and Izmir ...

The earthquake that hit Cyprus at 11.30am, registered 5.3 on the Richter scale, director of the geological survey department Christodoulos Hadjigeorgiou said on Wednesday. According to Hadjigeorgiou, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As we approach the 36th anniversary of the devastating 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake, you may be wondering, how safe is San Francisco? The city has an ongoing campaign to ...