Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nisqually Earthquake was a wake-up call to build stronger buildings across Puget Sound. More than two decades later, experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common type of retrofitting in California is shoring up a raised foundation. Also consider chimneys and gas. (Daniel Sulzberg / ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Though seismic retrofitting work was underway before the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake rattled the Puget Sound region, the effort since that day on Feb. 28, 2001 has increased.

"Soft story" buildings with weak ground floors proved vulnerable in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and are the focus of San Francisco's new seismic retrofitting mandate. SAN FRANCISCO, United States ...

Mission Santa Inés in Solvang will receive a $500,000 federal grant to conduct seismic retrofit work. The California Missions Foundation secured two grants totaling more than $1.2 million for projects ...

Solvang’s Mission Santa Inés will undergo seismic retrofitting in the coming months as a preventative measure should a major earthquake hit the region.

Several suburbs closest to the widely felt earthquakes that struck Los Angeles County this summer and fall have no active plans to require retrofits for seismically flimsy “soft-story” apartment ...