Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there’s nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds ...

Mill Valley will require earthquake retrofitting for some apartment buildings built before 1978. The City Council unanimously approved the ordinance on Monday. The ...

Living in the Bay Area comes with a constant reminder of the seismic fault lines that crisscross the region, as minor earthquakes occur regularly. These tremors serve as stark reminders of the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

San Francisco wants to identify thousands of concrete buildings across the city and retrofit them ahead of a major earthquake. Mayor London Breed has released an executive directive calling upon city ...

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 ...

Palo Alto City Hall. Embarcadero Media file photo. Palo Alto leaders were jolted into action in 2014 after an earthquake in southern Napa Valley caused more $1 billion in damages to homes, businesses ...

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 ...

This January 2019 photo shows construction work for an earthquake retrofit. At left is a special cantilever column made out of steel that was added to give more structural support to the existing ...

Japan's National Diet Building, which marks 90 years since its completion in 2026, will undergo large scale renovation work ...