Funded by a $5 million Federal Emergency Management Administration grant, the Earthquake Soft-Story retrofit program can fund the shoring up of more than 300 homes, according to Janiele Maffei ...

However, achieving this goal is expected to be difficult. Progress on seismic retrofitting of buildings along major emergency transport routes is slow. Tokyo, which has the most buildings that ...

The average cost of earthquake retrofitting a home is $5,283 ... $6 billion is spent on earthquakes each year in the United States. According to an updated FEMA report released today, building stock ...

Emergency transport routes play a crucial ... 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and be fully restored within a day. Seismic retrofitting of bridges on these routes involves two phases: initial work ...