Last Tuesday majority of Mountain View City Council agreed the city should adopt a mandatory seismic retrofit program to prevent older buildings from collapsing during an earthquake. The city council members main concern […]
September 2018 Newsletter.
California cities are feeling encouraged by the news that the city of Berkeley received federal and state funding to help pay the costs to retrofit privately-owned buildings determined to be vulnerable […]
Researchers at Harvard University with google developed an artificial intelligence system (AI) capable of forecasting aftershocks from earthquakes. Researchers say AI offered a marginally better system for predicting where an aftershock might occur.
For more info, please read the original article by USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/31/harvard-google-team-up-ai-predict-earthquake-aftershocks/1155203002/
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The Philippines is all too familiar with natural disasters: deadly tropical storms and typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Located along the Pacific’s so-called “Ring of Fire,” where seismic activity and tropical storms hit with alarming […]
At 7:33 Southern California experience 4.4 quake 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It was centered about 3 miles north of La Verne in the San Gabriel Valley.
For more info, please read the original article by Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/29/earthquake-east-los-angeles-hits-magnitude-4-4-usgs-says.html
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In Washington over the summer structural engineers were busy inspecting school buildings to see what level of seismic risk they posed. The assessment looked at how close the school is to a fault line, if it is in a tsunami zone or a region vulnerable to a magnitude […]
August has a been a shaky month, what does that mean? We have had a lot of seismic activity this whole month, and this has sparked reports that California will experience the “big one” soon. Is this true?
For more info, please read the original article by […]
A team of researchers from Colombia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, University of California, University of California at Riverside and the U.S. Geological Survey has come up with a physics-based model that marks a defining moment in earthquake forecasting. Bruce Shaw, a geophysicist at Lamont-Doherty said, “We now have a physical […]
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A key worry among apartment owners faced with any major renovation, repair or alteration of their building is the impact that construction could have on their tenants — and whether the outcome of their Tenant Habitability Plan […]
A 7.3 earthquake struck on Tuesday off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. So far no injuries or deaths were reported. No tsunami warnings were issued. Several buildings were shaken causing structural damage.
For more info, please read the original article by CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/americas/venezuela-earthquake/index.html
