Affordable glass fibers, cotton ropes, and fiber-reinforced coatings developed at the Asian Institute of Technology offer ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

The 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake caused major damage to buildings along State Street. Credit: Gledhill Library / Santa Barbara Historical Museum photo After the 1925 earthquake devastated Santa ...

Research on one of the world's largest earthquake simulators has made buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure more earthquake-safe. Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On a clear, warm September day, up on the 62nd floor of Salesforce Tower, which is the highest you can go in an elevator from the ground floor of the building, the 360 degree ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

A high-rise building design coming out of the University of British Columbia won't produce pushovers, but the structures will have some much-needed sway. It's part of a construction strategy described ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order on Monday aiming to help the state prepare for earthquakes. Executive Order 25-22 directs Oregon’s Department of ...