Homeowners in the East Bay are getting a chance to learn how they can do retrofitting work on their residence themselves while taking advantage of state grants available to help cover the cost of ...

Of the 8,268 unreinforced masonry buildings in L.A. the ones considered most unsafe in an earthquake all but 13 have been either retrofited or razed, said Andrew Adelman, general manager of the city’s ...

The Nisqually Earthquake was a wake-up call to build stronger buildings across Puget Sound. More than two decades later, experts say we’re still not fully prepared. “We have millions of people living ...

"Soft story" buildings with weak ground floors proved vulnerable in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and are the focus of San Francisco's new seismic retrofitting mandate. SAN FRANCISCO, United States ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Though seismic retrofitting work was underway before the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake rattled the Puget Sound region, the effort since that day on Feb. 28, 2001 has increased.

SEATTLE - Classes about earthquake retrofitting have been filling up on weekend days like this one for months now. The City of Seattle's Office of Emergency Management and volunteer instructor Tony ...