Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to ...

Three decades later, the need for earthquake-resistant structures along major roads remains largely unmet. The land ministry reported that 4,110 buildings ... of 6 to 7 on Japan’s seismic ...

Justin Wong lives in British Columbia, Canada, but said he can't afford to buy a home there. So he nabbed a house across the ...

1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ... bustling with glittering buildings and throbbing with ...

He decided to develop the Instant Houses after receiving a simple question from an elementary school student at an evacuation shelter in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which he visited after the 2011 ...

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between ...

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To ...

But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan ... falling debris from trees, buildings, overhead wires or ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of miles away. The earthquake took ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of miles away.

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, on Monday morning, shaking buildings across New England and surprising residents as far as Pennsylvania. Centered six miles southeast of ...