An earthquake drill was carried out across Peru on Friday following recent quakes in neighboring Colombia and Venezuela. It simulated an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Callao and ...

Bhutan staged a full-scale earthquake simulation in Thimphu with technical support from Nepal's experts. The drill exposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you prepared for an earthquake? The California Office of Emergency Services is making sure you are. Since California is ...

Cal State Fullerton students were quite shaken up recently — for a good reason. CSUF was among three locations chosen statewide to host the Great California ShakeOut, providing the opportunity for the ...

Earthquake-induced damage continues to pose significant challenges to the safety, functionality, and resilience of civil ...

The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The fault is overdue for an earthquake that could cause extensive ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University tested a 10-story, cold-framed steel building for seismic safety on Monday morning. The 10-story ...

Computer modeling illustrates 10 to 30-foot waves surging across the Pacific Ocean, as a result of a potential mega-earthquake in the Alaska Aleutian subduction zone.

The University of California, San Diego, has the largest outdoor shake table, or earthquake simulator, in the world - the only one capable of testing a 10-story building. The shake table can support ...