This blog post was co-authored by NBBJ Principal Andrzej Czech and Associate Sandra Lozano, and KPFF Principal Mark Hershberg and Associate Maikol Del Carpio. Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated ...

A seismic retrofit project is intended to help stabilize the home and minimize damage caused by earthquakes. According to Angi and HomeAdvisor, the cost of retrofitting a house for earthquake ...

California's Earthquake Brace + Bolt initiative, managed by the Earthquake Authority and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, is now inviting applications from homeowners for earthquake ...

The Nisqually Earthquake was a wake-up call to build stronger buildings across Puget Sound. More than two decades later, experts say we’re still not fully prepared. “We have millions of people living ...

The deadline for a grant program enabling homeowners, landlords and property owners to seismically retrofit select houses has been extended to Oct. 17, the California Residential Mitigation Program ...

Homeowners in some Southern California cities will be eligible for a seismic retrofit grant of up to $13,000 to protect against structural vulnerabilities to earthquakes. The pilot program is part of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

Many homeowners in Napa sincerely want to armor their houses against the next earthquake to strike wine country, but few know exactly how they can. A survey of residents who endured the quake of Aug.

A series of destructive earthquakes in Mexico this month is a stark reminder that Santa Monica will be left vulnerable should a quake of similar magnitude hit the southland. The newly redrawn Santa ...

With Desert Regional Medical Center facing a $222 million bill for renovations to protect it from earthquakes, state lawmakers have advanced legislation that could see the state help pay for such ...

After nearly a century of earthquake vulnerability, the process of retrofitting Los Angeles’ historic General Hospital is finally starting. The Depression-era facility, which opened in 1933 — an Art ...

BART has completed its earthquake retrofit of the Transbay Tube, the transit agency announced Monday as it celebrated 50 years since the first train traveled in the underwater tunnel linking Oakland ...