OPTIMUM SEISMIC, INC.
June 2025 NEWSLETTER
UC San Diego’s Shake Table is Making Buildings Safer
Ali Sahabi, GEC
Principal,
Optimum Seismic, Inc.
Following Building Safety Month in May, we’re spotlighting the groundbreaking […]
On Monday, April 14, 2025, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the mountain town of Julian, east of San Diego, shaking parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties. The tremors were felt widely, from the San Fernando Valley to Riverside, Palm Springs, and even parts of the Inland Empire. While the […]
As we approach the middle of 2025, many Californians continue to live in a state of earthquake denial. We often laugh off the possibility, assuming that because we’ve lived through past earthquakes, the next one won’t be worse. But that mindset is dangerous. Experts warn that a major earthquake, such […]
Recent developments in Long Beach have underscored the critical importance of protecting our community’s affordable housing stock. Plans to repurpose an old community hospital into a multi-service healthcare campus were delayed due to a state law prioritizing affordable housing developers when selling or leasing surplus land. The nearly century-old hospital […]
On Monday, April 14, 2025, millions of people across Southern California received an alert on their mobile phones seconds before a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit San Diego County, thanks to the ShakeAlert system developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). ShakeAlert, which began operating in California in 2019, detects seismic […]
