It knows which direction to sway based on sensors that detect which way an earthquake’s waves are coming from: [Click to see full-sized infographic] The second type of earthquake-proofing ...

Many California apartments with garages and carports on the ground story that were built before the 1980s are vulnerable to collapse during an earthquake. They are known as "soft-story buildings." ...

The Tohoku earthquake fault is a complex mosaic ... Karl has been Purch's infographics specialist across all editorial properties since 2010. Before joining Purch, Karl spent 11 years at the ...

Two large earthquakes struck the southeastern region of Turkey near the border with Syria on Monday, killing thousands and toppling residential buildings across the region. The first earthquake ...

It will be days or even weeks until we know the full extent of the destruction caused by today’s earthquake and tsunami that originated in the seas off Sendai, Japan, but new infographics by the ...

According to Nepal's government, the death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on April 25 has now exceeded 7,300. A further 14,000 people have been injured with an ...

I just got a bit more curious about earthquakes occurring in the PH. The infographic below tracks the thousands of quakes in the country since the 1970s, and lists the seven most destructive in our ...