A quarter century has passed since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, that displaced thousands of people and cost over a billion dollars in damages. Are we safer? If another one were to strike, will we be better off, than last time? The answers vary.
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In just a few days, the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake will happen. This earthquake not only injured more than 9,000 people, and displaced 20,000. The timeline NBC provided shows the magnitude of the earthquake and the destruction it caused.
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An earthquake in Canada has just been confirmed. It was of a 3.8-magnitude around northwest of Hampton in southern New Brunswick. It hit at 9:49 a.m. AST. The earthquake was an “intraplate earthquake,” which means, it happened inside the tectonic plate.
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This is a guide for most people in California who rent. It discusses advice on what you should do or ask your landlord to make sure your building is safe. A building that is retrofitted has a greater chance of having a minimal impact to no impact when the big […]
-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).
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
-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 […]
January 2019 Newsletter.
The New Year is a time for self-reflection: What is it that we failed to accomplish in the previous year, and what can we do in the next 12 months to be better, fitter, […]
