As 2021 draws to a close, it is likely that this year will be remembered as a good one for earthquake safety. Not for what did happen, but for what didn’t happen.
While other natural hazards took heavy tolls throughout the nation, earthquakes were relatively quiet this year. That’s something to […]
Optimum Seismic, Inc., one of California’s leading earthquake retrofit companies, is a Gold sponsor of the U.S. Green […]
Optimum Seismic, Inc. served as the presenting sponsor of the Culver City Chamber of Commerce 2021 Economic Outlook / State of Recovery Summit on Dec. 9.
This summit provided a forum to discuss the current effects of the pandemic, its economic fallout, recovery trajectory, and trends that are expected in the future.
A […]
City of San Diego officials are getting serious about resilience, and they’re turning to the community for feedback on what that means.
In 2020, the city completed a Climate Change Hazard Vulnerability Assessment, which has served as the foundation for a new plan – Climate Resilient SD – to ensure that […]
Humans, in ancient times, believed earthquakes were caused by huge animals, angry gods and giants.
Current folklore attempts to find causal links between moon phases and earthquakes, but this theory has been debunked by science.
What we do know is that earthquakes are frequent in California, and that Southern California is long […]
Demolition of the “old” Long Beach City Hall – dedicated on the day of the nation’s bicentennial on July 4, 1976 – is underway. By the end of the year, it could be completely razed.
Deemed a threat in a major earthquake, the 14-story tower was closed in 2019 due to […]
December 2021, Newsletter
Ali Sahabi, GEC
Principal,
Optimum Seismic, Inc.
Resilience Advantage webinar series brings collaborative spirit among experts
In our quest to host a 2021 Resilience Advantage webinar series about earthquakes and […]
Seven thousand.
That’s how many buildings have been retrofitted for earthquake safety since Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2015 signed a historic law requiring seismic fortification for 12,558 older soft-story structures in the city.
I joined the mayor at an apartment building retrofitted by Optimum Seismic to celebrate this milestone, which […]
