According to the California Earthquake Authority, more than 1.2 million houses in California were built before 1980 in high-hazard areas that are vulnerable to ...

The announcement came just before ShakeOut, California’s annual earthquake safety ... to $13,000 toward the retrofit, which could include the installation of a new foundation, anchor bolts ...

In-fill wall retrofit has been used in many multi-column bridge bents ... In that test the model was subjected to a series of simulated earthquakes starting with small amplitudes and then gradually ...

Yoshiteru Murosaki, professor emeritus of disaster prevention planning at Kobe University, said seismic retrofitting is the foundation of all earthquake countermeasures. “If homes don’t ...