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by jorblumesea
2545 days ago
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There's lots of regulations, but the regulations seem flawed by design. For example, in California at least, buildings need to be built to survive earthquakes, but not necessarily be functional. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-legi... In the event of a larger quake, you might survive the initial shock but a high percentage of your city, including new buildings will need to be torn down. This represents a huge loss to a city in economic terms. Imagine if downtown LA lost 50% of its office buildings and apartment buildings. Compare this to Japan where buildings survive and are required to be usable. Japanese engineers are shocked at what they consider to be American substandard building codes. The US govt has even concluded that better and stiffer building codes would save billions a year: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nibs.org/resource/resmgr/docs/MS_C... |
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"Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/us/earthquake...