On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just over a month later on February 27, an even more powerful earthquake — with a magnitude of 8.8 — hit Chile near ...

While California and other seismically active parts of the U.S. haven’t had a major earthquake in over two decades, the next one could be particularly devastating. That’s because thousands of concrete ...