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To: saquin
Well, this most recent one in California was in the middle of nowhere.

Northridge was Magnitude 6.7 and did 50 billion dollars worth of damage and killed 50+ (and had Northridge been located even more towards downtown LA I could see it having killed several hundred).

It is unfortunate though, very basic earthquake-resistant construction isn't THAT expensive if it's incorporated in building something, but in the Third World, dirt-cheap rules.
16 posted on 12/26/2003 1:54:29 PM PST by John H K
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To: John H K
Apparently the town was built of mud bricks and palm tree timber, held together by gravity. Which is fine until it is shaken from below.
18 posted on 12/26/2003 2:01:17 PM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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