SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah — What shook many across both the Salt Lake and Utah Valleys was felt most violently by neighbors in the Harvest Hills area of Saratoga Springs. It even made some young ones put ...
Where the school had been, moments before, was a cloud of dust. The day was pleasant and partly cloudy in Mexico City when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the earth, killing around 400 people. Of ...
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 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 ...
In the face of a looming Cascadia earthquake, an Oregonian/OregonLive investigation into the structural integrity of Portland-area schools revealed that years after initial warnings, many students ...
In selecting nine schools for seismic retrofits, Portland Public Schools picked buildings at high risk of collapsing on kids during an earthquake, but passed over some buildings too expensive to ...
ANCHORAGE — Monica Bradbury stood bundled in her coat in the hall of the elementary school where she was dropping off her daughters, ages 7 and 10. It was close to 9 a.m. Monday, still coal-dark in ...