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Despite earthquakes being rare in New York, modern buildings are built to withstand any potential event, such as Friday's surprising tremors from New Jersey.

San Francisco’s ill-fated Millennium Tower is making headlines once again for problems taking place beneath its turbulent foundation.  This time, the 58-story skyscraper is sinking even further on its vertical axis as it settles to the north and west, alarming some building scientists who...

The engineer of the so-called fix of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco recently acknowledged there’s been less than expected tilt improvement...

The Millennium Tower in California, years the subject of controversy for sinking and leaning, could see trouble if the Hayward Fault Zone triggers a quake.

San Francisco building officials are allowing some work to resume on the so-called fix of the leaning Millennium Tower after a key test of modified installation...

Since its opening in 2009, the $350-million Millennium Tower had already sunk 17 inches when the construction paused in late August.

Millennium Tower fix engineers want homeowners to sign off on a plan to install a new test pile 200 feet down to bedrock to learn what triggered sudden...

"That diabolical system": evictions in Famine Ireland Up to half a million people lost their homes during the Great Famine. Who carried out and documented those evictions, and what happened to the evicted? • 25 Feb 2021 Gaunt and miserable [...] being hunted there, as wolves, by the blood hounds of the unchristian, that diabolical system which had turned many...into desert wastes and howling wilderness. The eviction of tenants during the 1840s is one of the enduring themes of the Great Famine...