Residential and commercial buildings in Penang can withstand tremors measuring up to 4.0 on the Richter scale, according to ...

An X user shared some videos of the buildings which swayed but still withstood the earthquake in Thailand. He wrote, “Tall buildings are like big, wobbly Jenga towers; they lean and sway slowly ...

“Nearly every week, I have at least one episode of intense anxiety,” Olstad says, “thinking about how terrified my children would be if a significant earthquake comes and the building starts ...

The ground shook for 30 seconds and was felt over a 230,000-square-mile area, with the epicenter near the Joint ... Countless buildings were also damaged. In Centralia, the earthquake damaged ...

What should you do if you're in a building when earthquake shaking begins? In regions of the world with known active fault lines, including California and Japan, building codes are often designed ...