This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.

While current models show a one-in-five chance of a ... strong earthquake in the next 50 years, we could have an earthquake ...

When earthquakes occur, it is the older buildings that often collapse first because they are not engineered to resist powerful earthquake forces. Those newer buildings, however, that look structurally ...

The City of Vancouver intends to create a public “high-risk building inventory” to help reduce earthquake risk in private ...

This is the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao: a school building collapsed, a commercial establishment crumbled, and debris fell from several structures. The General ...

Earthquakes threaten homes across the country, but especially on the West Coast along the San Andreas fault line. Major earthquakes can destroy houses, but even small earthquakes can crack foundations ...

An earthquake forecast for the State of California was released by USGS, Southern California Earthquake Center and the California Geological Survey in 2008. It states that there is a greater than 99% ...