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To: Amy J who wrote (180576)	1/15/2004 7:01:17 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575154

"Loma Prieta created a perception that San Francisco had gone through a big earthquake, and that was the most we were going to have to cope with — when it was moderate to minor, and quite distant from the city," he said. "The earthquake gave people a really false sense of safety." story.news.yahoo.com. Egads, thought the buildings here would just roll with it. Amy, its even worse than this article says. In the 1994 LA quake, a building for which I had overseen the rehab had to be torn down. It had been totally reinforced and did not pancake like many unreinforced bldgs. However, every major structural wall had significant shear cracks. Had the earthquake been a couple hours later, there would have been at least a few deaths. Sad but true! ted