Liquefaction

4 April, 2024

Ensuring Your Building’s Resilience to Earthquakes: Is It Built on Solid Ground?

By |2024-04-22T19:37:52+00:00April 4th, 2024|Earthquake Resilience, Earthquake Retrofits, Liquefaction, SDCAA|

Apartment buildings in the Greater San Diego Area may sit on soil that is prone to liquefaction, landslides or other instability when shaken by an earthquake.

If your apartment building is located in Mission Bay, Mission Valley, Tierra Santa, Linda Vista, and many other San Diego communities, it’s best to have […]

1 February, 2022

Can Liquefaction Destroy Your Building?

By |2022-02-15T00:13:05+00:00February 1st, 2022|AAGLA, Earthquake Resilience, Liquefaction|

About 15 million years ago, the Los Angeles Basin was underwater. Over the span of many millennia, surrounding mountain ranges rose, releasing molten rock into the underlying crust to create an immense geologic bowl that time filled with sand, silt, and clay from ancient rivers.

Today, the basin is home to […]

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