Just a few miles from a small, earthquake-shaken community, a large river winds past Interstate 20 on its way to South Carolina’s coastal plain. The Wateree River is a major natural feature of the ...

The chair of the UCLA civil and environmental engineering department is leading a U.S. team traveling to Italy this weekend to work with Italian scientists on research into the destructive earthquakes ...

I often get asked how I come up with topics to write about each week. It’s easy. Between Mother Nature and the many brilliant, hardworking, and imaginative scientists in my field, the problem is ...