Aftershocks from the recent earthquakes in Ridgecrest, are getting closer to bigger faults that can produce a 7.0 or greater magnitude earthquake. There is no way to know when the next big one is coming, but it is something to be concern with.
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Optimum Seismic Chief Operating Officer Ali Sahabi will be among rental housing industry leaders attending a legislative breakfast with California State Treasurer Fiona Ma on July 20. The annual event will be sponsored by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles.
“We are glad to be able to support such events […]
One week after the two major quakes that hit Ridgecrest, a 4.9 earthquake struck this Friday morning. The worst part is that it’s hasn’t just been in Ridgecrest, there was some seismic activity in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, and San Bernardino.
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On Friday morning Washington state was hit with a 4.6 earthquake in Washington’s Puget Sound region. A few minutes later not far from the quake there was a 3.5 aftershock near Monroe, Washington. More than 6,700 people reported feeling the quake.
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After the Ridgecrest earthquakes, structural engineers went to the scene to see the damages, and to their surprise there was not a lot. Why is that? It is because Ridgecrest is not the populated and it is all relatively new construction. According to Ken O’Dell, president of the Structural Engineers […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
I recently ran across the following question from a Los Angeles woman on Yelp:
Q: Is there a way to know how safe your apartment building is in case of an earthquake?
One respondent stated that if her apartment is […]
July 2019 Newsletter.
This month’s earthquakes near Ridgecrest have prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency for the small, desert community. These temblors, the largest to hit the state in […]
-Appeared on San Diego County Apartment Association (SDCAA)
Much of the world’s best research about building strength during earthquakes happens right here in San Diego.
The University of California, San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering conducts some of the most noteworthy studies available on the effects of […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
It’s been more than six months since a massive 9.2-magnitude quake shook Southeastern Alaska, and while some businesses are still trying to get their lives back to normal the overwhelming majority of communities there seem to have withstood the […]
Last week The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent individual assessments of earthquakes risk to administrators for 222 school buildings. Saying that their building is in high risk of collapsing and killing students in an event of a major earthquake.
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