LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- When your house starts shaking from an earthquake, you want to be sure it's secure. Unfortunately, it can slide right off its foundation. "Pre-1980 house may have this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A home collapsed in the Boulder Creek area of the Santa Cruz Mountains during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.

Residents can receive up to $3K in seismic retrofit grants under the Earthquake Brace + Bolt program. Eligible low-income residents can receive up to $7K in supplemental grants. The registration for ...

The deadline for a grant program enabling homeowners, landlords and property owners to seismically retrofit select houses has been extended to Oct. 17, the California Residential Mitigation Program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This January 2019 photo shows construction work for an earthquake retrofit. At left is a special cantilever column made out of ...

California's Earthquake Brace and Bolt program is accepting applications until Oct. 1 for the initiative that provides funding for people to retrofit homes to better withstand earthquakes. Why you may ...

More than half of the 410 hospitals in California have at least one building that probably wouldn’t be able to operate after a major earthquake hit their region, and with many institutions claiming ...

CALIFORNIA (KABC) -- It's no secret that Californians always have to be prepared for the next big earthquake. On Wednesday, a new grant went into effect aimed at helping residents protect their homes ...

Most people in San Diego County don’t worry about earthquakes until the earth beneath them starts shaking. Just ask folks out in Julian who were jolted by a quake back in April. Up until Oct. 1, ...

There could be hidden earthquake flaws in your single-family home in California — enough to be ruinous and possibly deadly in the next big earthquake. One of the dangers may come as a surprise to ...

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