That’s the question being answered by the California Residential Mitigation Program’s Earthquake Brace + Bolt program, which is "to reimburse them for the cost of retrofitting," explained Glenn Pomeroy, the CEO of the California Earthquake Authority.
Pomeroy told KCLU, the program can help homeowners lessen the potential for damage to their houses during an earthquake by "bracing" the crawl space, when necessary, and "bolting" the house to its foundation.
"Take a home that sit on top if a crawl space. When the ground shakes, those studs wobble and the house falls off its foundation," said Pomeroy. "It doesn't take that much to get someone to go into that crawl space and spend a couple of days just bolting that home into the foundation and wrapping it in plywood and and you've dramatically lowered the vulnerability of that home. "
The program has 15,000 available grants of $3,000.
Registration is open from now until November 29, 2022.
