Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, but this new invention has the potential to mitigate some of that damage without needing electricity.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Peru, injuring 27 people and damaging some buildings. Officials report no deaths.

The US state of Hawaii has been rocked by a late night 6.0 magnitude earthquake with the epicentre felt on the Big Island ...

Civil engineering professor Moussa Leblouba from the University of Sharjah in the UAE has developed a simple device designed to reduce earthquake damage.

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings and left at least four people dead. Damage was reported ...

Morocco trembles. Not always visibly, not always dramatically; but constantly. From the small weekly tremors in the Rif ...