The church earned basilica status after a five-year restoration project sharpened its beauty and made it earthquake-safe.

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...

A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

Researchers at UC San Diego on Friday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.

The coast is the scene of a constant battle between the forces of the sea and the resistance of the coastline to those forces ...

San Francisco is weighing what to do with a giant public fountain artwork by artist Armand Vaillancourt as it plans a park ...

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UC San Diego is preparing to use its outdoor shake table in Scripps Ranch to determine whether 10-story buildings made of cold-formed steel can withstand massive earthquakes.

The drills coincided with the 35th anniversary of the destructive Loma Prieta 6.9 earthquake that struck and disabled the Bay Bridge, the I-880 freeway and sending fires raging into the Marina ...