Eighteen months after Los Angeles passed the nation’s most sweeping seismic retrofit law, more than 15% of the city’s earthquake-vulnerable wood apartment buildings have begun the process of retrofits. And that’s six years before the first buildings must be retrofitted under the law. (Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times)We’re just excited to see so many of the folks doing it. — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti“That means property saved, and more importantly, people saved,” Garcetti said of what would happen in the next major earthquake. Seismic safety task force — Reconvene a mayoral committee on earthquake safety “to develop new recommendations to keep our buildings safe.”Garcetti declined to say whether steel-frame buildings should be required to be retrofitted, as Santa Monica this year reaffirmed it would do.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 10, 2017 17:37 UTC