While no building can be completely earthquake-proof, Petco Park was constructed to meet the highest standards for earthquake resistance.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday urged the construction industry to reduce import reliance, embrace ...

who helped draft Bangkok’s earthquake-resistant standards, said that the building should have been able to stay up. The ground motion detected in Bangkok after the earthquake struck, he said ...

This infographic provides information on the West Block masonry project. This four-year complex, meticulous project was completed in February 2017. At the peak of the masonry rehabilitation, over 200 ...

This means that older buildings would have been particularly vulnerable. This is not unusual, as earthquake-resistant buildings can be more expensive to construct and Thailand, unlike Myanmar ...

GSMB Seismologist Nilmini Thaldena told the Daily Mirror both the international and local mega building contractors now consider applying earthquake resistant technology in their buildings ...

Amorn Pimarnmas, president of the Structural Engineers Association of Thailand, explained that a 2007 law mandating earthquake-resistant design applies only to new constructions. Buildings erected ...

He said that the government, through the Department of Standards Malaysia, has established earthquake-resistant building codes, including the Malaysia National Annex to Eurocode 8: Design of ...

It comes as dramatic footage shows the moment a building several stories high collapsed into rubble in the city of Mandalay - near to the earthquake's epicentre. Survivors in the city dug with ...

This means that older buildings were particularly vulnerable. This is not unusual, as earthquake-resistant buildings are more expensive to build and Thailand, unlike Myanmar, does not experience ...

“But at least we take care of our lives where we can.” Thailand upgraded its earthquake-resistant building code in 2007, and experts said the vast majority of the city’s buildings were ...