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 ...

The project scope includes seismic retrofit activities to better support the bridge’s stability and reliability during seismic events. These retrofitting efforts include constructing concrete ...

The retrofit, estimated to cost $5 million — the bulk of the pending project — won’t require demolition and would minimize the impact of construction on operations while increasing seismic ...

One way to prevent the destruction wrought by a devastating earthquake – like the ... Most of our 10.8 million existing homes are in need of a retrofit to improve their performance and cut ...

Low-cost base isolation technology developed at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad enhances earthquake resilience and retrofitting ...

The Oregon Department of Transportation shared new details about the Center Street Bridge seismic retrofit at Monday ... was allocated $60 million due to House Bill 2017. Another $40 million ...