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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

The prediction of earthquakes may be inexact, but it is vital, especially when large cities such as San Francisco ... Many building codes call for buildings to have solid foundations attached ...

Soft story buildings made up close to half of the 16,000 housing units in San Francisco that were left uninhabitable immediately after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Seismic retrofits can ...

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.

Deierlein says 60 to 70 buildings used the same type of steel welds that fractured during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in Los Angeles. RELATED: Is San Francisco ready for the next disaster?