How can I find earthquake assessment information about houses for rent in Redlands/LL area? (Loma Linda: rental)

[piggywings]

I'm moving to Redlands/Loma Linda area for 4 years (school) and my husband and I are looking at rental houses in the area.

How do you find out if a house's construction is up to code in earthquake-readiness?

What about for the actual university and hospital buildings?

[Gandalara]

This might help you.

Homeowner’s Guide to Earthquake Safety
(53 page PDF file)
This guide was been developed and adopted by the California Seismic Safety Commission as required by Assembly Bill 2959 and Assembly Bill 200

Honestly - anything built after the 90's would be perfectly safe.
Any public building built before that has been retrofitted and deemed safe.
"Safe" being - we're not hit with a 9+

Had a house built in 1952 that had not been retrofitted - and it breezed through several 5.0's and larger, no damage whatsoever. It was located 1/4 mile from the San Andreas fault. The swimming pool sloshed

[piggywings]

Thanks! The year guideline is a good point, I'll keep that in mind!

Do you know if there is somewhere you can look up an individual building's assessment? I imagine that if someone is putting up a place for rental, they have to have evidence that the property has been assessed by some sort of regulatory standards?

A seismic assessment report on hospital buildings was released, and some of the medical buildings were graded 1/5 and are being forced to retrofit or replace. So I'm curious about other buildings where I'll be spending time.

[Gandalara]

Originally Posted by piggywings

Do you know if there is somewhere you can look up an individual building's assessment? I imagine that if someone is putting up a place for rental, they have to have evidence that the property has been assessed by some sort of regulatory standards?

I don't think there is any place like that. Never heard of one anyway
Rental laws vary city to city - most are just worried about smoke alarms, etc etc.

Originally Posted by piggywings

A seismic assessment report on hospital buildings was released, and some of the medical buildings were graded 1/5 and are being forced to retrofit or replace. So I'm curious about other buildings where I'll be spending time.

Eh, they knew that long ago. They wait until they're forced to - because of the cost.

With the earthquake questions, I take it you're not a native? We continually get shaken around and most of the time we don't even know it. We have hundreds under 2.0 all the time. No one notices them.

[piggywings]

Hmm interesting, surprising there isn't a central place to look it up!

Yes, we're moving from the Midwest. It's not the little earthquakes that concern me, it's setting up camp for 4 years practically on top of a fault line 200 yrs overdue for a high-magnitude quake. It's different from when people moving to the midwest worry about tornadoes - there's a very low chance that their path will intersect with your house, though it can be catastrophic if it does. An earthquake is unavoidable, and a 6-7+ earthquake is inevitable in the future. Whether it's 6 days or 6 decades from now, who knows. That's when structural integrity makes the biggest difference, so it's important for our peace of mind to know. If I grew up around earthquakes and were used to them, I might not be as concerned subjectively, but objectively the concerns would still be there.

[fasttimes1]

My 1955 house survived the 1992 Landers quake at 7.3 magnitude with no damage. And, it's under 5 miles from the epicenter.