Los Angeles County is refusing to disclose a preliminary report that could explain why officials suggested that the downtown ...

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

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 ...

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