November 1, 2018

LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE RETROFIT PROGRAM – WHAT SOFT-STORY BUILDING OWNERS NEED TO KNOW

On January 17, 1994, a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck los angeles—The Northridge Earthquake. It was then that the nation recognized the presence a very important structural flaw that plagued lots of buildings within the nation’s most earthquake-prone cities. The bottom floor of the Northridge Meadows apartment complex collapsed beneath the 2 floors above it. Sixteen residents, …

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