BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the news media are invited to the University at Buffalo North Campus on Friday, June 7, for a series of earthquake tests. Researchers will use a shake table – a large ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland State University researchers simulated an earthquake on Friday, testing the effectiveness of a potentially revolutionary soil treatment. Researchers used a mobile field ...

A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A day after an earthquake rattled San Diego County, UC San Diego researchers conducted quake preparation testing at MCAS Miramar.

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more earthquake-safe. Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures ...

Researchers at Carleton University have designed a tool that simulates earthquakes to test how well buildings withstand some ...

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 ...

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

Residents along the West Coast were left shaken when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled the region last week, resulting in a tsunami warning and a scary couple of hours for more than 5 million people.