A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck off the coast of the central Philippines on Tuesday evening (September 30, 2025). The intense tremors caused damage to buildings and roads and also ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Southeast Asia around lunchtime Friday, killing at least three people in Thailand and bringing down multiple buildings in Myanmar, prompting the military-run ...

Volunteers look for survivors near a building damaged in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on March 28, 2025, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. (Aung Shine Oo / Associated Press) Weak building codes and years of ...

A Dunedin property developer says unlike other parts of the country, the city faces bigger challenges following the government's overhaul of the earthquake-prone building system. Coastal Otago, ...

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced in Dubai that current codes of practice around the world are inadequate for the seismic design of tall buildings and has called for a more ...

State lawmakers in Washington and Oregon are looking to tighten standards to ensure public buildings can offer shelter after major earthquakes Whenever the next Big One hits — a magnitude 9 Cascadia ...

At least seven people were killed and more than 700 people injured when a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan early Wednesday. The quake, which rocked the island just before 8 a.m. local ...

In Dhaka's Armanitola, reports emerged of an eight-storey building collapse. Two units from Sadarghat and Siddikbazar fire stations rushed to the spot. Officials later clarified that the building ...

An earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States on Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, causing buildings to shake and rattling nerves from Maryland to Maine. The USGS ...

Many buildings in the zone have been extended upwards in stages, initially constructed up to two to three floors and later ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even more are prone to serious damage according to the ...

In compliance with adopting California’s new building standards code, on Nov. 19 Sonoma City Council considered provisions to the law that are locally-specific to Sonoma’s conditions, ...