A few weeks later, smoke and flames fanned out the window of the building's ninth floor. The researchers had returned for ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

"So we're looking for an innovative building system that we can use in the United States, that can work in earthquake country as well as everywhere else, can be constructed quickly, can be sustainable ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — “We are creating our own earthquake,” Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations of real earthquakes, ...

Drivers on Interstate 15 may have noticed smoke near Pomerado Road this morning. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas says it was part of a UC San Diego study on how fire spreads through ...

New Zealand is changing the way it assesses earthquake-prone buildings in an attempt to reduce costs and confusion for owners ...

The changes, unveiled by Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk, are expected to save New Zealanders more than $8.2 billion in strengthening and demolition expenses over the coming decades.

A man who lost his wife when the CTV building collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake says the government's new rules ...

For years, San Francisco has been compiling a preliminary list of nearly 4,000 concrete buildings at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake. But the list likely has major errors — and now the city ...

Mexico's Sept. 19 earthquake drill will also include emergency exercises for several types of natural disasters.