Known as soft-story buildings, one such complex collapsed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, killing 16 people on the ground floor in the predawn darkness. There are an estimated 1,700 soft-story ...

Know the school’s emergency plan, and keep your kids’ emergency release cards up to date. Designate a person outside your area (at least 100 miles away) as a message contact .

Because of a seismic isolation floor in this Sendai server room, nothing was damaged during the destructive 9.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed cities and tragically killed almost 16,000 people.

The Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday passed the nation’s most extensive seismic retrofitting effort, which will require safety improvements to as many as 2,000 buildings suspected to be v… ...