14-01-2010, 05:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-01-2010, 06:35 PM by Keith Millea.)
That makes sense to me Ruben.A 6.5 quake is a BIG ONE.Thankfully it was centered North of San Francisco.There would have been massive damage in the Bay Area.And yes,the quality of the buildings makes a big difference.California has for at least a decade been retrofitting all bridges and overpasses to make them better able to withstand big quakes.They are changing the base structures so that they have some "play" in them instead of being rigid.This seems to prove your theory.Poor Haiti has no such luck or money.The suffering there must be unimaginable.
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