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Category Archives: Earthquakes
How much confidence should you place in hidden earthquake compliance inside LA’s speculative real estate market?
Dan Luu writes: “If you talk to trades in Vancouver about how this works, the builders give contractors timelines and budgets that are impossible to meet without severely cutting corners. It is also the case that their buildings often have … Continue reading
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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book about the 1964 Anchorage earthquake, which measured 9.2 on the Richter scale: * Twenty-three hundred miles south of Anchorage, in an elegant, modernist ranch home in Pasadena, California, a sixty-three-year-old man and … Continue reading
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