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Inside FORTIFIED: Installing Sealed Roof Deck with Self-Adhered Underlayment

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Inside FORTIFIED: Installing Self-Adhered Starter Strips

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Inside FORTIFIED: Installing Starter Strips Using Roof Cement

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Inside FORTIFIED: Installing Underlayment Over Taped Seams

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Inside FORTIFIED: Sealing Roof Seams with Tape

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Inside FORTIFIED: Sealing Roof Seams with Two Layers of Felt

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Install cabinets with latching drawers or add latches; secure file cabinets to the wall with heavy L brackets to prevent damage during seismic events.

Install cabinets with latching drawers or add latches; secure file cabinets to the wall with heavy L brackets to prevent damage during seismic events.
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Installing an automatic gas shutoff valve

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Insulating a crawlspace foundation with “cripple wall” in warm climates; in Climate Zones 5+ replace the foil- or plastic-faced fiberglass batt/roll insulation with impermeable rigid insulation or closed-cell spray polyurethane foam

Insulating a crawlspace foundation with “cripple wall” in warm climates; in Climate Zones 5+ replace the foil- or plastic-faced fiberglass batt/roll insulation with impermeable rigid insulation or closed-cell spray polyurethane foam
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Interior and exterior safe room locations for slab-on-grade foundations.

Interior and exterior safe room locations for slab-on-grade foundations.
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IRC Prescriptive Wall Bracing Methods, adapted from IRC Table R602.10.4

IRC Prescriptive Wall Bracing Methods, adapted from IRC Table R602.10.4
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Is Your House Earthquake Proof?

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Joist straps or hangers and metal connector plates can reinforce a post-and-pier foundation against seismic movement

Joist straps or hangers and metal connector plates can reinforce a post-and-pier foundation against seismic movement
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Know More Risk: Seismic Gas Shutoff Valves

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Lightning Protection Systems

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Locations for earthquake anchorage of masonry chimney at exterior house wall.

Locations for earthquake anchorage of masonry chimney at exterior house wall.
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Masonry Concrete Block Tornado Safe Room

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Maximum spacing between braced wall lines, Table R602.10.1.3 in the IRC

Maximum spacing between braced wall lines, Table R602.10.1.3 in the IRC
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Nailing and ridge ventilation for roof sheathing used as a structural diaphragm in high-wind and seismic hazard areas.

Nailing and ridge ventilation for roof sheathing used as a structural diaphragm in high-wind and seismic hazard areas.
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Observed roof bracing for gable roof overhang and recommended modification

Observed roof bracing for gable roof overhang and recommended modification
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Pacific Northwest is Earthquake Country

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Plan view showing seismic strengthening of brick wall by anchoring the embedded wood floor joists with solid wood blocks attached to the floor joists with steel angles and to the masonry wall with through-wall anchors and steel plates

Plan view showing seismic strengthening of brick wall by anchoring the embedded wood floor joists with solid wood blocks attached to the floor joists with steel angles and to the masonry wall with through-wall anchors and steel plates
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Plywood or OSB shear wall panels help the wind to resist the compression, tension, and shear forces of high winds and earthquakes

Plywood or OSB shear wall panels help the wind to resist the compression, tension, and shear forces of high winds and earthquakes
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Possible failure scenarios due to house sitting on poorly braced and secured cripple wall

Possible failure scenarios due to house sitting on poorly braced and secured cripple wall