Early in the morning of April 18, 1906, Stanford students were asleep in their beds when a massive earthquake shook them ... when a chimney fell through the building’s roof.

When a large earthquake ... building to sway. Each base isolator is mounted on a piling that rises above the concrete foundation. They move much like giant roller skates, said Jennifer Costa ...

The biggest earthquake ... of geophysics at Stanford University. A 7.4 quake in eastern Turkey in 1999 that killed 17,000 people prompted a drive for stricter earthquake building codes that ...

When the shaking from the Himalayan earthquake reached Kathmandu just before noon on April 25, the Nepalese capital was filled with buildings ... a seismologist at Stanford University.

Most deaths occurring during an earthquake are the direct result of the collapse of buildings ... earthquake caused $300 million in damages at Stanford University. The Northridge earthquake ...