On Monday, April 14, 2025, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the mountain town of Julian, east of San Diego, shaking parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties. The tremors were felt widely, from the San Fernando Valley to Riverside, Palm Springs, and even parts of the Inland Empire. While the […]
A recent social media post sparked an important question about earthquake safety:
Q: Is there a way to know how safe your apartment building is in case of an earthquake?
While some believe that a building’s past survival guarantees future stability, this assumption is dangerously flawed. Each earthquake is different, and a building’s […]
The last time Lakisha Woods went to buy a car, she was sold on the safety features: forward collision warnings, automatic emergency braking, and blind spot and lane departure warnings, to name just a few.
“When I went to buy a home a year later, nobody told me about the safety […]
Saving lives is the ultimate concern when preparing for an earthquake, but building retrofits bring so many cost benefits that they make good business sense as well.
Retrofits enhance a building’s value by extending its longevity and making it safer for the people who occupy it. But there are […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
This article was originally posted on our company website. Optimum Seismic is a seismic retrofitting company based from California.
Why it pays to select contractors that comply with professional and occupational standards
Construction, when done wrong, can be an […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
Earthquakes have baffled civilizations for thousands of years.
In ancient times, many civilizations believed earthquakes were the result of giant animals, angry gods, and giants.
We now know and understand much about our world’s mighty […]
-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).
The recent Mars landing of NASA’s robotic lander InSight means we can now look forward to two years of data from seismic monitoring and underground temperature readings that will unlock mysteries about the origin of the red […]
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 […]
Why it pays to select contractors that comply with professional and occupational standards.
Construction, when done wrong, can be an industry fraught with workplace injury.
On any given day, more than six million people work at some 252,000 construction sites across the nation, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In […]
