Have you read our recent blog on the requirements of the City of Los Angeles’ Soft Story Retrofit Program? Our last blog discussed how the City has identified buildings vulnerable to structural failure both during and after an earthquake, and what the timelines and first steps are, when undertaking a Soft Story retrofit project. In this blog, which is the second in the series on [...]
What is the likelihood of another earthquake hitting Los Angeles? Well, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit the Los Angeles area Thursday, July 30, 2020. This strong earthquake, which centered near San Fernando, struck at 4:29 am. You may be wondering, will seismic activity continue after an earthquake hits? In this case, subsequent aftershocks continued with a 3.3 quake at 4:38 am and a 3.8 quake at [...]
Can your home survive an earthquake without a retrofit? In the last few years, earthquake scientists have been sounding the alarm about the inevitability of a very large earthquake on the San Andreas fault, which is located only 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It is a fact that our fair city typically experiences a very large earthquake every 100 years, and we are all [...]
Can You DIY Your Home’s Earthquake Retrofit? Many Los Angeles homeowners already know that the government’s “Earthquake Brace + Bolt” (“EBB”) program provides families in the Greater Los Angeles area with free money grants of $3,000 (and more!) to subsidize the cost of a California earthquake retrofit. Those homeowners who think that they can DIY their retrofit are taking unnecessary risks with the soundness of [...]
The Danger Of Homes Built Prior To The 1950s Many thousands of homeowners in Los Angeles, and indeed, in the entire State of California, live in homes that were built in the 1950s or earlier, and as such, were built on foundations intended to safeguard the home in the event of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or a mudslide. However, while today’s foundations [...]
Virtually all residential and commercial apartment buildings in the City of Los Angeles have balconies and other “Exterior Elevated Elements” (also called “EEE”) that can pose a safety risk if they are not properly maintained. In recent years, the high-profile collapse of poor-condition EEEs, especially a balcony that resulted in multiple injuries and deaths of students during a birthday party, have paid out multi-million dollar [...]
What is the California EBB Program? As you may already know, about twice a year, the State of California’s “Earthquake Brace + Bolt” (“EBB”) grant program provides homeowners in the Greater Los Angeles region with completely free money grants of $3,000 (and potentially other supplemental grants) in order to subsidize the cost of seismic retrofitting their homes. Right now, and for a limited time, the [...]
We will get hit by earthquakes, and one of those will be the “Big One” Every century, the greater Los Angeles region experiences a substantial earthquake, and seismic experts are united in the belief that our city is long overdue for a significant seismic event! Our large earthquake will likely originate from the San Andreas fault, located a mere 35 miles away from downtown Los [...]
This is the second blog in a series of four blogs that we will publish over the next few weeks, all having to do with the upcoming mandatory obligation of owners of multi-family residential apartment buildings and condominiums in the City of Los Angeles to conduct a thorough safety inspection and repair (if necessary) of their buildings’ wood-framed balconies and other exterior elevated elements (“EEE”) [...]
On April 25, 2023, registration opened for the Earthquake Soft Story (“ESS”) pilot program! This unique government program offers free-money grants of up to $13,000 to eligible Los Angeles homeowners that goes toward a seismic retrofit of their “Soft Story” home, which is defined as a home with at least one floor of living space that is built above a garage. Such homes are especially [...]
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