Japan's infrastructure ministry announced Tuesday that the country's elevators may soon have a surprising new feature, the Kyodo news agency reports -- toilets. Yes, it sounds odd, but while the idea ...

An earthquake hit New Jersey and New York on Friday — but I was in the elevator and didn't feel it. I'm steaming mad that everyone else got to experience this and I missed out. I propose a do-over for ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has announced that it has successfully deployed an earthquake early warning system on a bank of four elevators at its downtown San Francisco headquarters. The ...

New Delhi: In the aftermath of a catastrophic 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday, chaos unfolded as people in Bangkok’s Silom Complex were trapped in an ...