Materials scientists have uncovered a new way to predict material degradation and failure by studying muscovite mica and ...

More than two decades after a major earthquake destroyed buildings across Puget Sound, many remain vulnerable to collapse.

It's the sound of the city's buildings swaying and creaking and all their contents shimmying, wobbling, scraping across ...

A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

Those could be some of the effects of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Vancouver, according to a new report scheduled to be ...

A new report says up to 1,350 people would die or suffer severe injuries and nearly 6,100 privately owned buildings would be heavily damaged.

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics ...

After a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in April, inspectors declared the building unsafe. The branch reopened just in time to serve as a polling place for the election.

geological carbon sequestration and infrastructure such as buildings, roads and bridges. Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and ...

The fate of Napa’s Center Building continues to play out, more than a decade after it was severely damaged by the 2014 earthquake. In June, the city gave the Center Building's owner Brian Silver ...

A mild earthquake just outside of Moncton on Monday night was not a rare occurrence, according to a federal scientist. Data ...