City officials from throughout the state of California met with leading experts in seismic retrofit contracting from Optimum Seismic during the League of California Cities’ Annual Conference & Expo on October 16-17 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
“Optimum Seismic was very proud to be involved for […]
Machu Picchu is one of the seven wonders of the world, but when it was being built it suffered through at least two earthquakes a new study suggests. The earthquakes not only damaged walls, but a change in construction techniques occurred.
For more info, please read the original article […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled an earthquake early alert app in California. The MyShake app created by UC Berkeley is the first statewide earthquake early alert app for California.
For more info, please read the original article by USC Annenberg Media:
http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2019/10/22/californias-first-statewide-earthquake-app-will-send-early-alerts-to-people/
A study released last Thursday warned that the Garlock fault, which runs through the Mojave Desert in southern California has been moving for the first time on record
For more info, please read the original article by Business Insider:
https://www.businessinsider.com/california-fault-creep-the-big-one-2019-10
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit Monday morning off the Oregon coast becomes the fifth to strike off the coast. It hit at 6.47 a.m. About 120 miles west of Bandon.
For more info, please read the original article by OregonLive.com:
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/10/magnitude-46-earthquake-off-oregon-coast-marks-fifth-this-month.html
According to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian, the City anticipates sending out “notices to comply” will be sent to Priority 1 properties “next month or so.” The notice will require affected property owners to submit a screening application, unless they believe their structures do not require retrofitting. The screening […]
A lot of talk has been around the recent earthquakes to hit the Bay Area. One of them ruptured an area in Contra Costa County where no faults had been detected before. Small quakes may have little impact, but if they occur on mapped or unmapped faults, they should serve […]
Last night San Francisco Bay was hit with a 4.5 magnitude earthquake. It was felt all over the region. With the USGS said there was a 2% chance of one or more aftershocks larger than magnitude 4.5 over the next week, and as many as four aftershocks of magnitude 3 […]
October 2019 Newsletter.
Last week was an important week for Los Angeles County and the region. Why? On Thursday, Optimum Seismic joined the Southern California Association of Governments, BizFed, Los Angeles Economic Development, and the U.S. […]
Seismic sustainability/resiliency experts will hold a press conference on Oct. 10 to announce key findings about seismic resiliency and their program to help businesses become physically and economically sustainable in case of a major earthquake.
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 10, 2019 – Four key Los Angeles organizations working […]
