[buccaneer81]

Loma Prieta in 1989 taught San Francisco a few lessons. I think they would hang in there better than the doomsday people predict.

Just like the 1994 Northridge quake. It could have been much worse.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I was in LA at the time Northridge and a piece of glass fell on me. I still think LA is better prepared than SF.SF is a gigantic deathtrap.

[SoldierDad]

Loma Prieta may have “taught” lessons, but it didn’t result in many real changes in SF. Water mains are still inadequate. More than 60% of the buildings in SF will not survive a major quake. The retrofitting of bridges and elevated freeways have not been completed. The state’s economy is not helping either.