-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 building […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
“Here’s who to thank that we all survived the quake on Friday,” a headline in the Anchorage Daily News read just days after the Nov. 30 2018 earthquake shook the region with a 7.0-magnitude force.
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-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
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 […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association California, Southern Cities (AACSC).
California’s devastating wildfires and the recent quake in Alaska may distract us from our own vulnerability to natural disaster.
But did you know that Southern California’s deadliest earthquake occurred right here in the Apartment Association of […]
-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 […]
The May 30 Event is Part of an Ongoing Series Addressing Projected Earthquake Risks, Social and Economic Impacts, and Recommended Steps to Protect Our Communities.
When buildings crumble – when they are red-tagged due to damage from an earthquake – small businesses suffer, setting off […]
Earthquakes don’t heed the legislative boundaries that define a city’s limits.
That’s why, many property owners not bound by any safety ordinance are taking action and having their buildings retrofitted anyway – not because of […]
News accounts of the Northridge earthquake of 1994 presented shocking images of the widespread destruction, the loss of life, and the injuries suffered from the 6.7 magnitude blind-reverse-thrust quake, which produced the largest ground motions ever recorded in an urban environment in the U.S.
Fifty-seven people were killed; more than 40,000 […]
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 […]
