Washington state is marking the 25th anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake this week, highlighting a quarter-century of ...

Retrofitting is the process of changing technology or adding entities to the building that ultimately result in the addition of strength of the existing structure without its demolition. With better ...

The choice of appropriate repair and/or retrofitting techniques for an earthquake damaged building always requires: 1) a preliminary assessment of the current state of the building, to understand its ...

NAPA — Nearly 30 years after California adopted a law designed to spur the retrofitting of buildings at risk in an earthquake, thousands of Bay Area structures still are not updated, a laggard pace ...

Seattle officials could finally require seismic retrofits for masonry buildings, but not this year. In the list of 1,141 masonry buildings in Seattle that are at risk, 647 are the most vulnerable ...

Local emergency managers agree that a recent New Yorker article was more than a little over the top in implying that everything west of Interstate 5 will be “toast” after the next Cascadia megaquake ...

As Los Angeles moves to require earthquake retrofitting of concrete buildings and “soft story” apartments, the city can look at an earlier seismic safety campaign for inspiration. Los Angeles was one ...

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