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thrownaway2424 on Aug 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6.0 Northern California earthquake

Better sticks than bricks.

ulfw on Aug 24, 2014 [–]

Ha. Good point. ;)

Still I wouldn't call a lot of the 1900-1970s housing stock prevalent across SF and the Bay particularly earthquake ready.

thrownaway2424 on Aug 24, 2014 | [–]

It's mostly garbage. SF and California generally were supposed to be disposable. People didn't think beyond the bonanzas.

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