The challenge lies in the partial loss of effectiveness of the actuated wheels which results in the loss of strong controllability of the WMR, rendering the classical fault-tolerant control methods ...

A recent report presented to city council painted a bleak picture of what a long-feared megathrust earthquake—commonly known as the Big One—could do to Vancouver.

The fire that destroyed a historic ship in the Bay of Islands was most likely caused by an electrical fault, not by arson, a fire investigator says. The Tui, a century-old sugar barge converted into a ...

Many called it the most significant housing legislation in years. No-fault eviction protections didn’t make the cut. Critics of the concept were concerned it would make it difficult for ...

Madame Web has gone down as one of the most disastrous superhero movies of all time, flopping at the box office amid a flood of negative reviews. Upon release it broke records as the worst opening ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault surfaces to the possibility of earthquake occurrences. Published in the ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

I read in Our Readers’ Views a letter stating the passport office is a chaotic mess (The Columbian, May 29). The writer then said it was proof of emasculated governmental agencies. What is she ...

Scientists refer to recurrence intervals to estimate how often major earthquakes occur on a given fault. For the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the geological record shows a pattern of megathrust ...