I learned about the risk of “soft story” buildings on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989. On that day, coastal Northern California was struck by the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake. Soft-story ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. OAKLAND — To prevent hundreds of multi-story, wood-frame apartment buildings from collapsing ...

Living in the Bay Area comes with a constant reminder of the seismic fault lines that crisscross the region, as minor earthquakes occur regularly. These tremors serve as stark reminders of the ...

The Burlingame City Council is in favor of a gradual approach to retrofitting soft-story buildings — top-heavy structures with a large, open-floor bottom often designed as carports that are not ...

Hundreds of Palo Alto property owners could be forced to firm up the shaky foundations of their buildings under a proposal that the City Council will be considering in the coming months. The city is ...

As California faces a budget deficit, one lawmaker is hoping to protect a grant program for old housing most vulnerable to collapse during earthquakes from becoming a fiscal casualty. Before the ...