No one knows when the next major earthquake will strike. In the meantime, researchers are working to understand how these ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning its strength is not the same in all directions. Anisotropy is what causes a ...

Leaning out of the ground-floor window of her home on a quiet street in suburban Istanbul, Aylin Yilmaz knows the house she ...