Wiener says some building owners will be able to add multiple units to their buildings, multiplying their new revenues — and the city’s housing supply.

Once the earthquake is over, centrally-located authorities can consult that wirelessly-transmitted record in order to instantly determine if the building exceeded its maximum structural tolerance.

Building codes were not always so rigorousespecially in earthquake-prone areas. Here's how to eyeball the risk posed by various structures.

We can "replay" an earthquake from history or simulate a new earthquake, measuring and monitoring the building response to make sure it's what we expected, but also so we can provide improved rules ...

But a magnitude 7 earthquake hits the earth somewhere about once a month — a quake measuring 6.3 shook New Zealand this week. Mostly they happen where there are no people; wherever they strike ...

An inventive mathematician has a new idea for protecting buildings from earthquake damage: hide them. William Parnell, of the University of Manchester in England, suggests wrapping a building’s ...

Even if two earthquakes have the same magnitude, their depths can make a big difference in how much damage they cause.

Resilience is a term often discussed in the face of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, but the attributes of ...