On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

Sen. Adam Schiff is urging Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reinstate the earthquake retrofit funds, which would’ve been used to strengthen as many as 1,500 apartment buildings.

The Earthquake Multi-Unit Soft-Story Retrofit grants — originally green-lighted through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is part of Noem's department — were meant to help ...

Klamath County currently doesn’t have an emergency operations center. Emergency Manager Ian Thigpen said the county has had ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

California loses vital FEMA funds for earthquake readiness as the Trump administration axes a nationwide grant program to help communities prep for disasters.

Aid groups, some of which helped after Hurricane Helene, are preparing to take on more responsibility when storms, floods and ...

Which we think are at a higher risk of collapse based on the performance we've seen in prior earthquakes," Ojala said. The FEMA funds would have been used to retrofit between 750 and 1,500 multi ...

FEMA cuts funding for earthquake retrofitting in CA. These funds are responsible for retrofitting homes & buildings in case of natural disasters. If these funds aren't reinstated, lives could be lost.

FEMA issued a statement on April 4 announcing the cancellation of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, known as BRIC, that would have funded the California earthquake ...