Earthquakes
In 1989, a major earthquake devastated business and residential sections of San Francisco and the surrounding area, destroying a section of the Bay Bridge and an elevated freeway and killing over 75 people. California is earthquake country! The people of the major cities in our state do not ask if there will be another earthquake, they ask when and where it will happen. Although the major earthquakes have been in the San Francisco area so far this …
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…buildings to be made safer?
Many of these questions and objections are honest, but the people who ask them miss the main point: What will be the cost if nothing is done? Is the loss of property and human lives worth less than the cost of reinforcement? Clearly, it is the duty of the city council to the citizens to protect them by passing earthquake laws and making Los Angeles a safer place to live
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