BUFFALO, N.Y. -- It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during powerful earthquakes. Knowing precisely what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design buildings that are less ...

Earthquakes never occur when you need one, so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and ...

On Wednesday, California state officials are testing their "Wireless Emergency Alert" system in downtown Oakland, partially to establish whether Amber Alert-style text message warnings can be ...

Naval aircraft testing over the Atlantic Ocean created the sonic booms that caused rumbles and house-shaking that could be felt from the southern Jersey Shore to Long Island and the Connecticut coast ...

Another apparent earthquake off Florida's Atlantic coast has been attributed to the U.S. Navy testing the seaworthiness of a new vessel.The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the Navy conducted a ...

Container cranes are used to load and unload ships in ports and are critical to port operations. Past earthquakes have highlighted the vulnerability of container cranes to damage from even moderate ...

What was previously recorded as a 3.7-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Florida was triggered by a man-made explosion to test the seaworthiness of a new U.S. Navy vessel.Seismographs detected the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University is to become a site in an innovative national earthquake research system linking 15 of the nation's leading engineering schools. A $2.1 million award from the ...