It depends on the height of the buildings. It's not the just the strength. You have to make sure that the building is able to sway because during the earthquake, basically the ground is shaking. It ...

Fourteen children died after the roof of a building near Lahore collapsed on top of them, officials say. The incident happened at a private tuition centre in the Kahna suburb of the Pakistani city.

When two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 struck northern Venezuela on Wednesday, images of the devastation spread across news outlets within minutes: collapsed buildings, torn-off facades, ...

CNN reviewed and verified dozens of videos from Venezuela’s two deadly earthquakes and found many residential towers had ‘pancaked.’ But why is it so lethal when buildings collapse this way?

A new federal report reveals that structural flaws causing the Surfside condo collapse began weeks before the disaster in South Florida. Federal investigators found that key column connections failed, ...

Sergio Candido is the managing editor for the South region at cbsnews.com, coordinating multiplatform news coverage for CBS Miami, CBS Texas and CBS Atlanta. He previously worked for outlets including ...

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

In this photo provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, search-and-rescue personnel search through the rubble for survivors shortly after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside.

SURFSIDE, Fla. — A torch was lit just after 1 a.m. Wednesday in remembrance of the 98 people killed when the Champlain Towers South building collapsed on June 24, 2021, one of the largest structural ...

Investigators with the National Construction Safety Team released their technical findings on what contributed to the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside. Investigators found "no evidence ...

Rescue and recovery crews work amid the collapsed remains of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., following the June 24, 2021 disaster that killed 98 people. NIST's June 2026 technical findings ...

The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021, but the building had ...