[tjoff]

They were not designed to be able to resist an earthquake of that magnitude so I fail to see how it can be an failure from an engineering perspective (the fact that most plants handled it fine should if anything suggest that, from an engineering perspective, it was a success).

[Tichy]

Could you forward your comment to the author of Dilbert, please?

[fffggg]

Not designing for an appropriately sized earthquake is itself an engineering failure.