-Appeared on Southern California Rental Housing Association.
“Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday,” a headline in the Anchorage Daily News recently read.
Striking images from the Nov. 30 earthquake there show Vine Road near Wasilla fractured and […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
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 […]
BizFed (The Los Angeles County Business Federation) has teamed up with Optimum Seismic Inc. to educate local government officials about the issues facing their cities in case of catastrophic destruction from an earthquake. This seminar will feature public officials and building experts identifying the impending risk […]
Most survivors of the damage from last month’s 6.4-magnitude quake in Taiwan were in the upper floors of the buildings that tilted and caved in with lethal results.
Throughout the days following the Feb. 6 temblor, hundreds of people climbed out of toppled buildings – making their way to the outside […]
Nobody should ever be caught without insurance. It’s an essential tool to guard against excessive risk associated with our automobiles, our property, our health, even our lives.
But it’s important to note that while insurance may help to cushion the blow of an accident or worse, it […]
Building practices in Chile and Nepal underscore the importance of retrofits to withstand seismic activity
Every month of every year, an average of as many as 10 major quakes between a magnitude 6.0 and 6.9 strike somewhere on our planet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The level of […]
Anyone who lives in California knows that our state’s calamitous reputation for earthquakes is fueled by the intricate web of volatile fault lines that crisscross our landscape.
The closer you are to the convergence of two tectonic plates, the more likely you are to be impacted by seismic activity. Here in […]
Earthquakes are not selective about where and when they strike, and they are equally as indiscriminate on the types of buildings they can rattle to the ground. While it is true that some structures may be more prone to damage than others, the reality is that virtually all buildings have […]
Prompting ‘New Frontier’ for Earthquake Safety
The Los Angeles Times recently proclaimed the start of a “New Frontier” for earthquake safety: a phenomenon kicked off by the city of Santa Monica, which this month is expected to adopt the most comprehensive seismic retrofit ordinance in the nation.
Santa Monica’s law is much […]
