The Los Angeles City Council is mulling ways to pay for expensive retrofits of buildings in danger of collapsing during a major earthquake. Councilman Tom LaBonge said Wednesday he favors a state bond because strengthening at-risk apartments and other buildings …
The University of Nevada’s world-renowned earthquake laboratory has launched a nearly $4 million research project aimed at making nonstructural parts of buildings more earthquake proof. Engineers at the school’s Large-Scale Structures Lab cranked up three 50-ton capacity shake tables on …
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, in Alaska, is undertaking a project to make the hospital even more earthquake-proof. The Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation’s Board of Trustees says the hospital was built to withstand a very powerful earthquake but they weren’t sure …