On Friday Oakland City Council passed an ordinance that will require property owners to seismic retrofit their soft-story apartment buildings. The city law applies to certain types of old wood frame buildings. In the coming months city will send notices of a time frame of when the work will have […]
In October, Portland city commissioners voted to put sign on the brick buildings that, they haven’t been retrofitted and are at risk. The Masonry Building Owners of Oregon filed a lawsuit this week claiming the ordinance is unconstitutional.
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Many residents of Oregon are aware they are due for a big earthquake at any time now, an earthquake followed by a tsunami would be devastating. Here’s a rundown of the biggest earthquakes to hit Oregon in the last ten years.
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An eruption of Mount Etna in Europe has triggered a 4.8-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday morning. 28 people were injured as well as some damaged buildings. The epicenter was north of the city of Catania and the damaged caused several families to spend the night in the streets.
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In Oregon, Governor Brown is calling to have a statewide early warning system up and operational by 2023, it would also be abel to use it to warn of wildfires. This will save lives. “When the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake strikes the Pacific Northwest, Oregon will face the greatest […]
Two scientist are optimistic they will be able to better predict earthquakes. This research could greatly improve the seismic hazard maps, said Los Alamos geophysicist Claudia Hulbert, a co-author on both of the new papers. “It provides a nice angle of attack,” she said.
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If you recall reports last summer of the Yellowstone National Park’s active super volcano. David Shelley a seismologist from the USGS said, “In fact, earthquakes themselves may allow the fluid to migrate more efficiently through faults in the rock,” he said, noting that the earthquakes weren’t accompanied by other signs […]
People assume its not a matter of if a “big one” will hit border the Mississippi but a matter of when. In recent weeks tiny tremors have hit the surrounding states and scientists have seen evidence that the central Mississippi River valley has seen major earthquakes for more than 4,000 […]
The ordinance will apply to soft story apartment buildings built before 1991. The main reason they are doing this is because, “If we don’t increase the integrity of the buildings, not only will we have loss of life, but massive displacement,” Kalb said. Oakland has about 2,810 buildings that would […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
The recent Mars landing of NASA’s robotic lander InSight means we can now look forward to two years of data from seismic monitoring and underground temperature readings that will unlock mysteries about the origin of the red […]
