F or decades, the Golden Gate Bridge has stood the test of time, but since it's only about 6 miles from the San Andreas Fault ...

The Merced Seismic Retrofit project includes work on five bridges in Merced County in need of an upgrade after they were ...

Los Angeles has a mandatory seismic retrofit law for wood-frame apartments and concrete buildings. Long Beach, the county’s second-largest city, does not, and neither do the rest of L.A. County ...

Pasadena City Council approved an $8.6 million contract as part of the Central Library project. The library has been closed ...

A recent investigation into a busy seismic retrofit contractor in California revealed that it had been in business for roughly one year, had completed over 400 retrofit projects (a near impossibility) ...

The City Council on Tuesday tentatively approved the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort, which could require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings.

Think of seismic retrofitting as something you can do to make your home more resilient as well. Visit strengthenmyhouse.com to learn more about the importance of seismic retrofitting homes.

Howard Cook, founder of Bay Area Retrofit, a company that has done more than 1,000 retrofits since opening in 1994, said the best thing homeowners can do is educate themselves.

Mandatory earthquake retrofitting should be required on thousands of buildings in Los Angeles to reduce potential damage from a devastating quake, experts told city lawmakers Wednesday.

A proposed plan in San Francisco is similar to a successful law in Israel that added entire floors to apartment buildings while making a dent in the country’s huge seismic-retrofit backlog.