Structural engineers descended on Ridgecrest expecting to study destruction from the largest earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years. They found relatively little. But that outcome shouldn’t provide solace to California’s biggest cities.
Kristina Stockmyer and her husband Mark walk back to their home in the Heritage Village community of Ridgecrest, Calif., where most of the structures stayed intact after a pair of earthquakes hit the area last week.
Experts were quick to point out that last week’s quakes would have proved far more devastating had they been located near bigger cities filled with more susceptible buildings. “We still have dangerous buildings, and we still have a building code that is not optimal and doesn’t protect society as well as it could,” he said. “Instead of a dozen collapsed manufactured homes, hundreds or thousands of collapsed manufactured homes. Instead of four or so building fires, hundreds of building fires.”
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