On Tuesday, Vancouver’s mayor and council heard its first report from Vancouver’s chief resiliency officer. The report is intended to prepare the city for earthquakes and flooding. The point is not just to survive the issue but to be able to function afterwards.
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Another earthquake hit The Philippines this time is was 6.4. This earthquake is not connected to the one from yesterday. A lot of families were evacuated, while schools and government work in affected area were suspended to allow for building inspections and rescue work.
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Optimum Seismic,Inc (www.optimiumseismic.com) Chief Operating Officer and Sustainability and Seismic Resilience expert Ali Sahabi, presents the economic benefits of retrofitting buildings to increase earthquake resilience on Wednesday, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The seminar will be held at the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Association of REALTORS® […]
On Monday the northern Philippines was hit with a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least five people in a collapsed building. Two other people that were take to the hospitals are doing well. Seventeen aftershocks have already been recorded by the state seismology institute. The Philippines is used to […]
A new study, published in Science, found an earthquake strikes every 3 minutes. The information was gathered from 2008 and 2018. It found that Southern California experienced a 1.81 million temblors during that decade. Most of the earthquakes are weak and humans don’t feel them. The new updated catalog promises […]
During the earthquake in 1906 San Francisco was destroyed. Ever since then the Bay Area has increased from 400,000 to 7.7 million people. San Francisco along with Daly City, Santa Rosa, Sunnyvale, and San Jose were the worst cities to be during the 1906 earthquake. If that earthquake were to […]
A report this month by The California Geological Survey (CGS) released a new Seismic Hazard Zone revealed the most dangerous places in the Bay Area during liquefaction and landslides following a major earthquake. “The highest hazard areas are concentrated in regions of man-made landfill, especially fill that was placed many […]
This Thursday marks the anniversary of San Francisco’s 1906 7.9 magnitude earthquake that destroyed the city. According to the state and federal projections if an earthquake of that magnitude hit today. “If a quake like that were to strike along the San Andreas Fault today, building damage would eclipse $98 […]
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake near the Geysers hit North Bay residents Monday early morning. According to USGS it hit around 4:45 am, it was near Cobb Mountain. No injuries or damage was reported.
For more info, please read the original article by CBS SF:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/04/15/north-bay-jolted-by-4-2-earthquake-near-geysers/
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
There’s a saying in our industry, that earthquakes don’t kill people. Buildings do.
Yes, it is over-simplified, but the fact remains that earthquake threats to public safety are fundamentally linked to structural stability. People get injured in earthquakes because a […]
