Rising concern with the threat of earthquakes in Southern California communities has many new companies trying to break into the seismic retrofit industry.
Be careful not to let a poor job done by an inexperienced company become a costly lesson for you.
Plumbers, handymen, kitchen and bathroom remodelers: many of these outfits […]
Earthquake risks in San Diego are significantly higher than previously believed, and measures to mitigate potential impacts from major temblors are still needed.
Noted earthquake expert Lucy Jones warned the city in 2018 to get a handle on the situation – before it’s too late.
Since then, new findings about the Rose […]
Will San Diego be at the center of California’s next deadly earthquake?
The odds are 99-1 that a killer quake – larger than anything we have known – will happen in our lifetimes, somewhere in the state.
It could wield its lethal blow in San Diego, according to California Earthquake Authority CEO […]
First came a quake, lasting more than 6 terrifying minutes. Then came a tsunami, and after that a nuclear power plant meltdown that left a large section of island country uninhabitable a decade later.
A science fiction movie script. No. This was real life in Japan.
Japan’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake of March […]
Earthquakes have inflicted pain and damage on Long Beach and surrounding communities in past decades.
A recent Resilience Advantage webinar touched on milestones in the Long Beach resilience story — the 1933 earthquake, state legislative changes following the earthquake, the new resilient City Hall and Port buildings, and the new Long […]
Concern over safety prompted closure in 2018. Is your building safe?
Long Beach Community Hospital reopened this year after being shut down in 2018 out of seismic safety concerns.
Worry over the safety of the building prompted its closure, but the facility reopened in January and was expected to […]
Last year, Southern California observed the 25th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake — a 6.7- magnitude blind-reverse thrust temblor that in 1994 caused $67 billion in widespread damage.
It was, and still remains, one of the nation’s most expensive natural disasters.
We’ve learned a lot since then. Thousands of structures throughout California […]
What is the cost of being unprepared for disaster?
In California, the numbers are staggering – and growing.
This year alone, the Golden State has seen natural disaster in the form of COVID-19 as well as record-breaking wildfires, bringing price tags to taxpayers in the tens of billions of dollars.
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Nobody should 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 while insurance may help to cushion the blow of an […]
