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L.A. releases addresses of 13,500 apartments and condos likely to need earthquake retrofitting

Neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood and the Westside will feel the biggest impact from Los Angeles' new law requiring the retrofitting of

Los Angeles will have the nation's toughest earthquake safety rules

In a stark recognition of Los Angeles' vulnerability to a major earthquake, the city on Friday enacted the nation's most sweeping seismic regulations, requiring

How L.A. conquered an earthquake danger zone: Brick buildings

As Los Angeles moves to require earthquake retrofitting of concrete buildings and "soft story" apartments, the city can look at an earlier seismic safety campaign for inspiration.

Poll: Most LA residents back mandatory earthquake retrofits - Los Angeles Times

PT Los Angeles residents strongly back the city’s landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades... Progress has been much slower in retrofitting non-ductile...

Earthquake safety lessons for California from Santa Monica

California earthquake safety, retrofitting more than half of its... at earthquake safety in Southern California comes after a 2013 Times report that focused on the city of Los Angeles and...

L.A. County moves toward mandatory quake retrofits

California Los Angeles will have the nation’s toughest earthquake safety rules Oct. 9, 2015 A U.S. Geological Survey simulation said it is plausible a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern...

Retrofitting pre-1979 homes can prevent much costlier quake damage

After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles city building officials briefly considered requiring 50,000 single-family homes to be retrofitted, but the idea was rejected. State...

Many older L.A. buildings could collapse in an earthquake

More than 1,000 old concrete buildings in Los Angeles and hundreds more throughout the county may be at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake, according to a Times analysis. ; By the most conservative estimate, as many as 50 of these buildings in the city alone would be destroyed, exposing thousands to injury or death. ; A cross-section of the city lives and works in them: seamstresses in downtown factories, white-collar workers in Ventura Boulevard high-rises and condo dwellers on Millionaires' Mile in Westwood.