A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area around Naples overnight, causing one light injury and some structural damage, and ...

Residents forced to sleep in cars after 4.4 magnitude tremor damages buildings - Firefighters pulled at least one man from ...

On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

Chileans still have painful memories of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in 2010 that triggered a tsunami and killed 526 people. Since that disaster, Chilean authorities have sought to improve emergency ...

Most school buildings in southeast Missouri are not reinforced and are vulnerable to collapse if a major earthquake were to ...

Reports for three school districts in southeast Missouri indicate most school buildings aren't earthquake-resistant. Some ...

A study conducted by the Bucharest Community Foundation, through the Bucurestiul Pregatit/Bucharest Ready program, shows that ...

Authorities have released details of dozens of illegal buildings on the Greek island of Santorini, which seismologists say ...

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Fire crews responded to a partial building collapse along Somerville Avenue in Somerville Monday evening. Somerville officials say crews responded to a reported collapse ...

I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Photo / Mark Mitchell Wellington City Council has spent tens of millions of dollars upgrading several social housing buildings only to have them deemed earthquake-prone, meaning they have to be ...

A building housing blocks of classrooms at the Government Girls Science and Technical College along Gombe Road in Potiskum, Yobe State, has collapsed, leaving one dead and several female students ...