After the 1906 Earthquake and fire, San Francisco leaders built relief cottages to house the homeless. Some of those tiny ...

The “Earthquake House” by architect David Ming-Li Lowe in Los Angeles, one of the only residential homes built on shock-absorbing dampers to protect against earthquakes, is back on the market with a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP/WNCN) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake five miles from the North Carolina border in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Charlotte as it spread tremors across ...

Civil engineer Joseph Schmitt was driving when the East Coast quaked on Friday morning. He did not feel the shaking; but his wife, at their home in Stony Brook, did. The magnitude 4.8 earthquake that ...

“Thought someone hit my house in their truck,” one person in Berea, Kentucky, wrote, with another person in southern Garrard ...

North Jersey residents were rattled Friday morning by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that quite literally shook everybody up from New Jersey to New York, Washington D.C., Boston and the surrounding areas.

Twenty-five-year-old Hakima walks through her destroyed village with her two children — including her 6-month-old daughter, Nasifa — in Chahak, Injil District, western Afghanistan. According to Hakima ...

A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage. The U.S. Geological Survey ...

The recent New Jersey earthquake (a 4.8 on April 5) has led to people sharing videos of the Big Brother house going through earthquakes. Since the Big Brother house is located in California, it isn’t ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table — a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake. The ...