In the aftermath of the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, collapsed buildings blocked rescue efforts and ...

If you live or work in Beverly Hills and your building was constructed before 1978, it may be in need of a seismic retrofit. According to recently obtained data on 229 soft-story buildings in the city ...

Several suburbs closest to the widely felt earthquakes that struck Los Angeles County this summer and fall have no active plans to require retrofits for seismically flimsy “soft-story” apartment ...

San Francisco wants to inventory its concrete buildings to determine which structures are most vulnerable to damage during the next major earthquake. Mayor London Breed issued an executive directive ...

Researchers hope to give building owners a number of different options at a variety of price points to retrofit their buildings and make them safer. Some of these options, like the shape-memory alloy ...

HUALIEN CITY, Taiwan April 4, 2024 2:43 p.m. A police officer stands guard near a partially collapsed building a day after a powerful earthquake struck in Hualien City, eastern Taiwan, Thursday, April ...

Performing seismic retrofitting on a skyscraper bought by Los Angeles County for housing county departments eight months ago at a bargain price may cost nearly double what the county paid for the ...

While the Ferry Building survived the 1906 earthquake, a previously unreported engineering analysis shows the risks to the building, plaza and the iconic clock tower in San Francisco.

A magnitude 4.4 quake, among the strongest recorded in recent years in the Phlegraean Fields, has once again shaken the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Narek Ekmekjyan, vice president of Optimum Seismic, takes a look at the retrofit work done by the company at an apartment building ...