“The houses affected by this earthquake are required to use earthquake-resistant building standards by the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing,” he said. “These earthquakes happen ...

Ruiz and Nimet Kirac from Antakya, the heart of Turkey’s earthquake-ravaged region. The building began convulsing ... Guclu Bahce, the mighty earthquake-proof complex, was among them.

The building was "dancing" underneath the simulator, scientists said. Researchers have successfully simulated a high magnitude earthquake on the largest building ever tested, and the structure ...

“We never thought he would build a building that was not earthquake-proof,” Ms. Keskin said. It was destined to fail. Across southern Turkey, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a second major ...

The city’s building codes were amended in 1995 to ensure that new construction or any significant upgrades are designed to make buildings earthquake-resistant and minimize the probability of ...

The challenge this year was to build a 4-foot-tall, earthquake-proof tower out of cardboard ... more support here,” one member of the Bonita Building Bananas team said, pointing to the seam ...

the brand-new Asur apartments — billed as earthquake-proof in advertisements — sustained damage in the first quake, but residents escaped unharmed. Some residents who returned to the building ...

Efforts to modernize California's water infrastructure and safeguard public safety in the event of an earthquake are taking ... includes building new levees, bridges and a local drainage system ...

The Thai capital is more than 1,000km (621 miles) from the epicentre of Friday's earthquake - and yet an unfinished high-rise building in ... to be earthquake-proof. "General poverty, major ...

To test whether these high rises made of timber could withstand an earthquake, the National Science Foundation funded the construction of Tallwood, a 10-story mass timber building situated on the ...