California has a number of older brick buildings that could collapse catastrophically in earthquakes, as occurred in Morocco.

To get a better idea of just how much damage even a moderate earthquake would cause to unreinforced masonry buildings, earthquake-engineering researchers in the University at Buffalo's MCEER are ...

When chimneys collapse, bricks can become deadly projectiles. At least 15,000 brick chimneys were damaged in Los Angeles during the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Their goal is to ensure that buildings won’t kill people when the ground shakes. Well-retrofitted brick buildings shouldn’t collapse in an earthquake, but they could suffer serious damage.

When the Nisqually earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, brick chimneys in parts of West Seattle and Bremerton were left looking like so much straw after the Big Bad Wolf had gone huffing ...

The hand-carved domes and brick-laid arches had almost all been put back together when an earthquake shook Morocco so violently that they caved in on themselves and crashed to the earth. After ...

Most of the 25 deaths in last Thursday's earthquake in Yingjiang county, Yunnan, which also left 314 injured, were due to the collapse of poorly constructed buildings built from hollow bricks ...

THE earthquake which devastated central Colombia on January 25th took its thousands of victims by surprise. No wonder, since predicting earth tremors is far from an exact science. After decades of ...

Ralph Tollett looks at the damage to his son's building in Pomona, Calif. on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) We can't emphasize enough that this earthquake is considered a ...

Brick by brick, a family rebuilds after Indonesia’s earthquake As Central Sulawesi recovers from the 2018 quake and tsunami, one family is rebuilding their lives by casting bricks.

Paint could help reinforce buildings A lick of paint could help make brick houses earthquake resistant . The paint is made with glass fibres and improves the strength of a building, as well as its ...