Thousands of buildings in California share a flaw with the structures that collapsed in Turkey and Syria earlier in February, but experts say it's unlikely that a similar crisis could take place in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As seismic engineers study the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 20,000 people this week, it's becoming clear ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took a first step Tuesday toward requiring the retrofit of older, so-called "non-ductile concrete" high rises that are at higher risk of collapse during a ...

Officials have identified 33 buildings owned by Los Angeles County as having a flaw that could cause them to collapse in a major earthquake. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) For six decades, a ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took a first step Tuesday toward requiring the retrofit of older, so-called “non-ductile concrete” high rises that are at higher risk of collapse during a ...

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is the last of its kind in California, seen here in a photo on Oct. 25, 2022. Laura Dickinson ldickinson@thetribunenews.com Devastating images from the recent Turkish ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials have identified 33 buildings owned by Los Angeles County as having a flaw that could cause them to collapse in a major ...