A home collapsed in the Boulder Creek area of the Santa Cruz Mountains during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. The soft-story seismic defect in houses Built before 2000, they’re known as “soft-story” homes — single-family homes with a living space over a garage. Grants available to owners of soft-story homes This month, the California Residential Mitigation Program …
A home collapsed on its garage during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 in the Boulder Creek area of the Santa Cruz Mountains. In the magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake in 2019, single-story homes with an earthquake-resistant slab foundation that didn’t have that “huge, great room where everybody’s taken out all the walls actually performed very well,” avoiding major …
Hyderabad: With a rise in instances of malpractices in the construction of the outer ring road, the Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited has decided to stem the rot with a comprehensive toll management system. The toll management system will use three types of toll collection methods, including electronic toll collection, touch and go and manual. According to highly placed sources, municipal …
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria is battling its worst floods in a decade with more than 300 people killed in 2022 including at least 20 this week, authorities told the Associated Press on Monday, admitting the situation is “beyond our control.” The floods in 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states and capital city have affected half a million people including 100,000 displaced, …
Neither Nazem Kadri, Johnny Gaudreau nor John Klingberg could sign with the Flyers even if they had their sights set on Philadelphia. Before any of the top NHL free agents had agreed to a deal this week, general manager Chuck Fletcher declared the Flyers out of contention for all of them because of “the reality of our cap situation.” “We …
