THE United States Department of Labour yesterday announced the award of a $4 million cooperative agreement to Pact, an ...

Here are ten historical churches located in the different corners of the world that have endured it all in one form or ...

A massive earthquake will one day rattle the Pacific Northwest. Minutes to hours later, a surge of seawater will swallow the ...

A New Zealand expert says wooden buildings are better able to withstand significant earthquake events. Professor Mark ...

A nuclear blast in an LDR will result in damaged, unreinforced structures and cause injuries. Regarding radiation in LDRs, proximity to the near-surface detonations will increase dangerous ...

The ultimate pursuit is the prediction of occurrence of an earthquake thus giving us precious minutes to save lives. An earthquake generates a 3-dimensional shock wave. Forces are generated ...

The construction company did not catch the mistake and assumed the column to be only decorative, and as workers began to demolish the unreinforced column, it collapsed, taking the upper floors down ...

Not far off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, a crack exists in the Earth's crust. This fissure is along a fault line that stretches for almost 700 miles.

With its distinctive pitched roof and green paint, the studio building is a splash of colour in the village centre. © ...