In selecting nine schools for seismic retrofits, Portland Public Schools weighed how to reduce life-safety risk within the confines of money allocated toward retrofits in its 2025 school bond.

San Francisco wants to identify thousands of concrete buildings across the city and retrofit them ahead of a major earthquake. Mayor London Breed has released an executive directive calling upon city ...

The Feb. 6, 2023, earthquakes in Turkey and Syria damaged over 100,000 buildings, caused more than 10,000 collapses and killed more than 50,000 people. These earthquakes also put to the test advanced ...

Earthquakes don’t rank highly as a natural risk to solar projects despite the isolated devastation they can cause. Wind, snow ...

In 1957, Vancouver took a decisive turn in its urban development when city council lifted the eight-story height limit in the ...

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A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Greece-Albania border region, delivering a sudden violent jolt that rattled communities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkey's Adana Hospital survived February 2023 earthquakes with no damage because of its seismic isolation system. Earthquake ...