Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the ...

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health soon will complete its decadelong, $750 million project to rebuild its Santa Barbara hospital to make it earthquake-resistant, according to a Noozhawk report ...

If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can ...

Japanese scientists have created a new construction material that could make buildings safer while helping our planet, according to a release from Shibaura Institute of Technology published by Tech ...