For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they warned, was the prevalence of tall concrete buildings atop soft soils — the kind that amplify shaking when an earthquake strikes.

Firefighters and rescuers stand next to a collapsed building following a twin earthquake in Los Corales, La Guaira state on June 25 Survivors of Venezuela's back-to-back earthquakes are beginning to share their harrowing experiences in the wake of the deadly disaster.

For the U.S. Virgin Islands, the local impact remained limited to the short-lived tsunami advisory. The main emergency remained in Venezuela, where officials were still assessing damage, treating the injured, searching collapsed buildings, and urging residents to stay clear of weakened structures as aftershocks remained possible.

Family members, survivors and community leaders gathered in Surfside to remember the 98 people killed in the Champlain Towers South collapse.

Investigators, in new information released about the condo that collapsed five years ago, found "no evidence of any specific initiating event."

Twenty seven people were rescued with injuries of varying severity; governor orders safety checks on surrounding area.

Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.

Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.

The Rivers State Government has dismissed claims that it approved the building plan for the five-storey structure that collapsed along Odili Road, Port

The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021, but the building had been vulnerable from the start, federal investigators found in a final report issued Monday.