On August 31 at midnight, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province near the Pakistan border.

When a major earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, buildings will collapse and lives will be lost. People in old and unsafe buildings are the most likely to be hurt and killed and in the Portland ...

The experiment, which will take place on 19 September, demonstrates the potential of high-performance computing ...

A few weeks later, smoke and flames fanned out the window of the building's ninth floor. The researchers had returned for fire testing to see how a building damaged by earthquakes would withstand a ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...

Soil liquefaction can be a major threat to the infrastructure and built environments in an earthquake-prone area. This happens due to substantial loss of soil stiffness and strength due to applied ...

On March 28, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended ...

On March 28, a magnitude (M) 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that ...

Now, scientists are studying this cataclysmic seismic event with the goal of devising new ways to reduce casualties in the ...

For many Portland Public Schools parents, the first weeks of school are a jumble of excitement and anxiety. But for some, that anxiety goes beyond the standard, “Will the teacher like my child?” to ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2 ...