California is helping some homeowners cover the costs of protecting their properties from earthquakes. Here's how the ...

Funded by a $5 million Federal Emergency Management Administration grant, the Earthquake Soft-Story retrofit program can fund the shoring up of more than 300 homes, according to Janiele Maffei ...

Following an earthquake or other disaster, attention shifts from ensuring human safety to assessing the community's damage ...

However, achieving this goal is expected to be difficult. Progress on seismic retrofitting of buildings along major emergency transport routes is slow. Tokyo, which has the most buildings that ...

An Oak Harbor man who has long been concerned about what would happen to Deception Pass Bridge in the event of an earthquake ...

Emergency transport routes play a crucial ... 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and be fully restored within a day. Seismic retrofitting of bridges on these routes involves two phases: initial work ...