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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Many of the buildings damaged in Rio Dell were of older construction, according to Knopp, made before California’s earthquake building standards were bolstered in the 1980s.

California struck by magnitude 5.2 earthquake shaking buildings in Los Angeles. Earthquake struck on Tuesday evening with its epicenter about 15 miles southwest of Lamont, with a boulder the ...

Many cities across Southern California now have earthquake retrofit laws for commercial or apartment buildings, and it’s possible you may live in one of them.