Thousands of buildings in Southern California are slowly being strengthened to prepare for the next big earthquake.
The city of Los Angeles alone has more than 13,000 soft-story buildings — structures built over open parking areas, which are at risk of pancaking during an earthquake. There are also more than 1,000 non-ductile concrete buildings — the same kind experts say collapsed after the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Structural engineer Kit Miyamoto — who saw the devastation firsthand in Turkey and compared it to the aftermath of the Hiroshima nuclear blast — said he feels like Southern California is on borrowed time. In 1994, the magnitude-6.7 Northridge earthquake struck L.A., killing 57 people and injuring thousands.
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