Across the United States, seismic maps and fresh quake swarms are sharpening public awareness of extreme earthquake risk. From the Pacific coast to the Mississippi River Valley, residents are living ...

While the Ferry Building survived the 1906 earthquake, a previously unreported engineering analysis shows the risks to the building, plaza and the iconic clock tower in San Francisco.

Extreme weather is complicating efforts to provide relief for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar, as the death toll from the disaster exceeded 3,600. As ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...