We have a lot of concrete buildings here in California that we know could very well collapse in a big earthquake. Anyone who thinks it's not going to happen or that it couldn't happen is delusional.

California earthquake standard designed to save lives but not buildings. There’s a new push to do both A Cal State Northridge parking structure suffered a near total collapse in the Jan. 17 ...

It’s plausible that five unretrofitted steel buildings could collapse in a hypothetical magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault in Southern California, according to the U.S. Geological ...

San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...

Turkey, Syria earthquakes pressure California to retrofit buildings 02:17. Thousands of buildings in California share a flaw with the structures that collapsed in Turkey and Syria earlier in ...

Built in the heart of Cal’s campus in the Berkeley Hills overlooking San Francisco Bay — an area prone to seismic activity — ...

As California’s fast-growing Inland Empire churns out new housing tracts, the city of Redlands is a throwback to an older, more regal era. Menu Subscribe Login My Account Customer Service ...

California Earthquake Sparks Building Collapse in Rio Dell. Published Dec 20, 2022 at 6:50 AM EST Updated Dec 20, 2022 at 9:13 AM EST. By .

It would have targeted a building type known to be especially vulnerable in a major earthquake: soft story buildings. That generally refers to wood-frame buildings constructed before 1990, where ...

After two strong earthquakes hit Southern California over the Fourth of July holiday, one name kept appearing in the news again and again: Dr. Lucy Jones.