Happy Birthday to the Humboldt Earthquake Education Center (HEEC). The center owes its existence to the California Earthquake Education Act of 1984 when the California Legislature designated the ...

Sandra Seale, project specialist and education and outreach coordinator for the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) group at UC Santa Barbara, has been recognized ...

The government will provide financial support for students in the region affected by the February earthquakes, but several provinces and some types of schools were not included in the plan. In ...

The safety and functionality of educational facilities are essential to ensuring the continuity of learning in times of crisis. When schools are structurally reinforced, they not only protect students ...

Recent earthquakes such as the 7.9 magnitude 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and the 7.6 magnitude 2005 Kashmir Earthquake demonstrate that many communities do not have earthquake-resistant schools. Many of ...

KUNA — Earthquakes may feel like a remarkable and jarring event, but for Idaho, a state that ranks among the highest in the nation for earthquake risk, they are hardly a rare occurrence. In a ...

KILLING as many as 40,000 people, the earthquake that radiated from Kashmir last week was overwhelming in its scope. But the details have proved equally appalling. Officials say that as many as half ...

At 9:51 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1886, the largest East Coast earthquake in recorded history ripped through Charleston with an epicenter near Summerville. The 60-second event killed about 100 people, ...