Batu Lanchang assemblyman Ong Ah Teong today proposed that technical guidelines for high-rise buildings in Penang be updated ...

The University of British Colombia research team developed a new system that keeps high-rises safe during major earthquakes.

Only two structures in Penang are designed to withstand earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale and within ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – ...

Some residents of the world’s 12th tallest city fear returning to high-rise living a month on from earthquake.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering, Qatar University (QU), organised the ...

Residents of Myanmar’s biggest city are living in fear, hit by tremors and a quake prediction following the March 28 disaster ...

YANGON: The Zeya Thiri Cinema in Sagaing, which took over 50 years to build and survived a powerful earthquake recently, is ...

While there were no fatalities, 151 people were injured due to panic, schools were closed for two days, and parks became ...

the Thai Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning introduced a comprehensive “Standard for Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings”. Given these building and engineering ...