NEW MADRID — At the New Madrid Historical Museum there’s an earthquake simulator where visitors get to play engineer. At their disposal are cylindrical wooden sticks and rectangular boards that can be ...

GREENWICH, Conn. (WTNH) — Students at a middle school in Greenwich have been relocated after an earthquake originating in New Jersey shook Connecticut late Friday morning. Central Middle School was ...

A major earthquake could hit the Pacific Northwest at any moment. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And, with students back to school this fall, some in unreinforced, 100-year-old buildings, most ...

For many Portland Public Schools parents, the first weeks of school are a jumble of excitement and anxiety. But for some, that anxiety goes beyond the standard, “Will the teacher like my child?” to ...

Students in a Greenwich middle school had to be relocated after cracks developed following a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey. Central Middle School was evacuated after the earthquake, which ...

The gym of a Brooklyn school has been deemed unsafe following Friday's earthquake, officials said. According to the city's Department of Buildings, on Friday, they conducted a structural stability ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The Utah Seismic Safety Commission examined 128 school buildings in the state and determined that 77 of them failed to meet federal earthquake safety guidelines. Most of the ...

Union Ridge Elementary School is among the schools in Clark County with buildings at high or very high risk in the event of an earthquake. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Hundreds of public schools ...

When a 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook California in March 1933, it exposed weaknesses in school building construction methods. Some 70 schools were completely destroyed, while hundreds more were ...

A new earthquake-resilient school building has been opened in the remote Himalayan foothills of Nepal thanks to an ...