August 2020

28 August, 2020

Optimum Seismic Sponsors Southeast LA Collaborative to Discuss COVID-19 Impacts, Strengthening Area Non-Profits, Increasing Community’s Voice on Facebook Live Aug. 31
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Optimum Seismic Sponsors Southeast LA Collaborative to Discuss COVID-19 Impacts, Strengthening Area Non-Profits, Increasing Community’s Voice on Facebook Live Aug. 31

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Optimum Seismic Sponsors Southeast LA Collaborative to Discuss COVID-19 Impacts, Strengthening Area Non-Profits, Increasing Community’s Voice on Facebook Live Aug. 31

By Ali Sahabi|2020-08-28T17:40:57+00:00August 28th, 2020|Press Release|

SELA Represents Groups Providing Services in Southeast LA Communities

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Southeast Los Angeles Collaborative, a non-profit group representing an area called the “epicenter” of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County, will discuss results of a survey detailing the disease’s impact on the region’s residents and businesses […]

4 August, 2020

UCSD Seismic Engineering Research Shows How to Protect Buildings
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UCSD Seismic Engineering Research Shows How to Protect Buildings

Earthquake Protection, SDCAA, Seismic Engineering

UCSD Seismic Engineering Research Shows How to Protect Buildings

By Ali Sahabi|2020-08-05T23:19:47+00:00August 4th, 2020|Earthquake Protection, SDCAA, Seismic Engineering|

San Diego is at the heart of much of the world’s best research about developing earthquake resilient buildings.

The University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering conducts some of the most noteworthy studies available on the damaging effects of earthquakes on buildings using one of the world’s largest shake […]

4 August, 2020

L.A. Quake Sounds Alarm for Enhanced Resiliency
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L.A. Quake Sounds Alarm for Enhanced Resiliency

Seismic Waves

L.A. Quake Sounds Alarm for Enhanced Resiliency

By Ali Sahabi|2020-08-05T00:24:57+00:00August 4th, 2020|Seismic Waves|

Optimum Seismic, Inc – August 2020 Newsletter

California sits on a precarious web of seismic faults that crisscross our state, building intensity that releases in ground-shattering bursts we call earthquakes. […]

3 August, 2020

Earthquake Disaster Risks Drop As We Become Resilient
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Earthquake Disaster Risks Drop As We Become Resilient

AAOC, Seismic Resilience, Seismic Retrofit

Earthquake Disaster Risks Drop As We Become Resilient

By Ali Sahabi|2020-08-05T23:11:18+00:00August 3rd, 2020|AAOC, Seismic Resilience, Seismic Retrofit|

Orange County, like most large metropolitan areas in the nation, operates an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) that is the communication and coordination hub for all emergency response situations we may face as a region such as earthquakes and major fires.

Comprised of representatives from public agencies and special districts throughout the […]

2 August, 2020

Mexico Earthquake Underscores Need for Seismic Retrofits
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Mexico Earthquake Underscores Need for Seismic Retrofits

AAGLA, Seismic Retrofit

Mexico Earthquake Underscores Need for Seismic Retrofits

By Ali Sahabi|2020-08-05T20:43:12+00:00August 2nd, 2020|AAGLA, Seismic Retrofit|

California and Mexico, our neighbor to the south, are all-too familiar with the devastation that earthquakes can bring, and both have found the push for building resilience has frequently been met with resistance.

No one wants to think about how an earthquake could turn their lives upside-down.

But on June 23, life […]

1 August, 2020