-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.
For more info, please read the original […]
Los Angeles, California — A free seminar on soft story apartment earthquake retrofits will be held on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, from noon to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the headquarters of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA, www.aagla.org), and sponsored […]
A day short of 94 years today was the 6.8 magnitude Santa Barbara earthquake. Thirteen people were killed and a damage of 8 million was recorded, with only a few buildings on State Street escaped damaged.
For more info, please read the original article by LA Times:
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If you are in San Diego County today at 11 am you will receive Shake Alert at 11 a.m. as part of a test of the California Early Warning Program. Rachel Sierer Wooden with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said, “It’s going to allow us to reach out […]
Last Thursday inside Fire Station 6 in Menlo Park, California an alarm went off, followed by an announcement by the loudspeaker, “Earthquake Warning. Serve shaking expected in 30 seconds.” The new system was triggered by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Bodega Bay, California 64 kilometers away. The systems immediately opened […]
the biggest earthquake to hit California in 2019 so far hits this weekend off the Humbodt County coast. The last time the area saw a similar earthquake was in January 2015 said, Elizabeth Cochran, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena. The region is known for having a […]
