Monthly Archives: January 2019

10 January, 2019

Long Beach: Home to Southern California’s Deadliest Quake

By |2019-03-15T23:36:17+00:00January 10th, 2019|AACSC, earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Retrofits, Earthquakes|

-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 […]

9 January, 2019

Seismic Hazard Map Identifies Building Risks

By |2019-03-15T23:34:07+00:00January 9th, 2019|AAGLA, Earthquake Retrofits, Seismic Resilience, Seismic Retrofit|

-Appeared on Apartment Association Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA).

Is your apartment building located within a fault, landslide or liquefaction zone?

The United States Geological Survey has published an interactive map online, enabling the public to search by property address to determine the earthquake risks […]

8 January, 2019

The double-deck Alaskan Way Viaduct spells disaster in an event of an earthquake

By |2019-01-08T19:03:00+00:00January 8th, 2019|Related News|

The double-deck Alaskan Way Viaduct will cause a disaster in an event of an earthquake in Seattle. The viaduct goes over the Great Northern railroad tunnel that was built in 1905 and it suffered no damaged at all during the 2001, 6.8 Nisqually Earthquake. Tunnels are safer during an earthquake. […]

8 January, 2019

Japan hit with a 6.3 earthquake

By |2019-01-08T18:59:57+00:00January 8th, 2019|Related News|

Japan was hit with an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude at 12:39pm GMT. It happened on the island of Tangegashima in Kagoshima Prefecture. There are no immediate reports of casualties or injuries, no tsunami warnings in place. Japan accounts for roughly 20 percent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or […]

8 January, 2019

What Can San Diego Learn from the Anchorage Earthquake?

By |2019-03-15T22:40:43+00:00January 8th, 2019|CalRHA, earthquake preparedness, Earthquake Protection, Earthquake Retrofits|

-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 […]

4 January, 2019

Himalayan earthquake ready to go

By |2019-01-04T18:18:52+00:00January 4th, 2019|Related News|

According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the Himalayan fault that caused the 2015 earthquake in Nepal is ready for another shift. Nepal will once again be affected by the earthquake. The results concluded that if all the energy is released at the same time it could power […]

4 January, 2019

Website claims to be able to predict earthquakes

By |2019-01-04T18:16:45+00:00January 4th, 2019|Related News|

Since Anchorage Alaska was hit with an earthquake, there has been a link to a website on social media that claims to be able to predict when earthquakes will happen. Scientist all agree this is not true. Luke Holmquist owns the website and uses his own research of 13 years […]

3 January, 2019

29 Portland schools at risk during an earthquake

By |2019-01-03T19:25:24+00:00January 3rd, 2019|Related News|

There are 29 schools in the Portland district that are at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake. The 29 schools are unreinforced masonry buildings, which are known to be one of the most dangerous buildings during an earthquake. In October, the Portland City Council passed an ordinance saying all […]

3 January, 2019

An earthquake shook southwestern Japan

By |2019-01-03T19:13:30+00:00January 3rd, 2019|Related News|

On Thursday Japan was rattled by 5.0-magnitude earthquake near the Fukuoka, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto areas. The two nuclear plants have been confirmed as operating regularly.

For more info, please read the original article by Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/earthquake-rattles-southwest-japan-no-damage-reported/2019/01/03/74d37a3a-0f3b-11e9-8f0c-6f878a26288a_story.html