San Francisco ... was an open building, and we didn't have to redo the foundation," says Devon Johnson, a building owner who underwent the retrofitting process. During a serious earthquake ...

San Francisco wants to identify thousands of concrete buildings across the city and retrofit them ahead of a major earthquake. Mayor London Breed has released an executive directive calling upon ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- San Francisco is calling for stricter building safety codes focusing on making high rises safer during earthquakes ... the rules for building foundations.

SAN LEANDRO (CBS SF) -- In the crawl space beneath his San Leandro home, Danny Hinckley is taking on a job most people would never consider. "This will be several weekends," Hinckley says crawling ...

and plywood “to add stiffness and strength to keep the house on its foundation,” she said. These types of homes have been damaged in earthquakes as early as the 1906 San Francisco quake ...

True or false: The building codes in San Francisco were radically revised after the 1906 earthquake to improve ... The primary focus was less "pre-quake" mitigation (improving building and fire ...

If not for the Loma Prieta earthquake ... t even have front doors. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was tucked into two floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue.

San Francisco - Earthquake ... One of the few buildings that survived with little damage was the Old Mint. It was able to withstand the tremors due its strong foundation, which was made of ...

The Millennium Tower, cheekily known as the leaning tower of San Francisco, is in trouble if just one earthquake hits the city, The Post has learned. Located at 301 Mission St., the building ...