Unfortunately and sadly two blocks... have collapsed." He adds that the earthquake was of such a vast scale that almost no buildings in the city survived intact. "We painfully witness how some ...

In an earthquake, unreinforced masonry buildings are more likely to collapse or lose their facades, as one in New Zealand's Christchurch earthquake did in 2011, when it fell onto a city bus and ...

TASS/. Several thousand residential buildings in Syria have been severely damaged by the earthquake and could collapse at any moment, Major General Safwan Bahlul, the head of the Syrian Arab ...

Boston residents said they have felt "whole buildings shake" after an earthquake hit the area this morning. The quake was reported Massachusetts at around 10.22am on Monday morning. It was ...

Another earthquake hit southern Turkey on Monday - killing one person and causing buildings to collapse - three weeks after the region was rocked by a catastrophic tremor that left almost 50,000 ...