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

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

around 250,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed. That same year, the government enacted a law promoting seismic retrofitting for buildings constructed before 1981 under old seismic ...

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 ...

The survey found that at the time of the quake many homes were not quake-resistant. Seventy-one percent of the respondents said they hadn't conducted seismic retrofitting work on their home ...

After the 1989 earthquake, Marin municipalities ... architect told me it can cost as much as $285,000 to retrofit a three-story apartment house. In a single-family home it costs $15,000 just ...

Visitors poured into the newly renovated Seaside Fire & Rescue station during an open house Wednesday to admire a revamped design, optimized spaces and seismic retrofitting.

Seismic retrofitting of bridges on these routes involves two phases: initial work to prevent bridge decks from falling and additional reinforcement to ensure rapid post-disaster recovery.

This concept has been tested in Japan for light-weight houses ... earthquake-prone countries have implemented these systems in high-rise buildings, bridges, and older structures through retrofitting.