RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Jan 14, 2021) – Optimum Seismic, Inc. is sponsoring the Riverside Clergy Association’s, 17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, “United to Heal”. Special guest speakers will be Senator-designate Alex Padilla, Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes, Secretary of State Designate Shirley Weber, and U.S. Rep. Mark […]
January 2021 Newsletter
We Need To Bring Greater Resilience To Our Lives and Communities in 2021
With 2020 behind us, we all hope for a […]
The best way to prepare for disaster is to ask yourself, “What’s the worst thing that could happen?”
When it comes to earthquakes, you can assess damage from past experiences, identify the near-misses or “thank goodness it didn’t happen here” scenarios and search out the best ways to mitigate those possibilities […]
Some scientists and economists say the COVID-19 pandemic, a rare, severe and widespread crisis, sparked widespread belief in hindsight that everyone should have seen it coming and been better prepared.
This year has been unprecedent – in our lifetimes, at least. Earlier societies are said to have been hit harder in […]
More than 60,000 vehicles pass daily over the new Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach – a 2,000-foot-long expanse of cables and steel connecting downtown and the 710 freeway to the port.
Opened in October, it is built to accommodate taller ocean cargo vessels, which are expected to rise to nearly […]
Half a century ago – on Feb. 9, 1971 – a 6.6-magnitude earthquake rattled the San Fernando Valley, killing 65, injuring 2,500, and causing $505 million in damage ($3.2 billion in today’s dollars).
Forty-seven people perished at one site alone when the San Fernando Veteran’s Hospital crumbled into a heap of […]
